George, I greatly appreciate your help in this. Im a C++ programmer, and it seems XML doesnt use the same logic at certain instances. I just have 2 more problems: FIRST: In this problem, I just need the last four digits of the ISBN. But the catch is that the ISBN length is not constant, but is always greater than 4. XML FILE <ISBN>23fds783222s</ISBN> <ISBN>f2h123as</ISBN> <ISBN>2hgfhhgf3432h123asssz</ISBN> XSL FILE: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:output encoding="UTF-16" method="xml" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:for-each select="ISBN"/> <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(select="string-length()", 4)"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> SECOND: I have no idea how to go about this one. I just have to select the text before the number. Do you have any idea? XML FILE <INFO>hotmail 1990</INFO> <INFO>some text here 2000</INFO> <INFO>some more text gere 9092</INFO> I greatly appreciate your help George. Thanks a MILLION Aga Shirazi