Hello, all, I think the answers you've given re. my various (and fairly vague) questions will be enough for me to revise and complete the stylesheets I need. Michael Fox answered my questions about the default templates and whether the "pull" or "push" approach would work best for these stylesheets, and Michele Combs gave me the basic structure I need to set up in each case. Nathan, I can't control any aspect of the XML output from our local (proprietary) database, but your suggestion has given me ideas for other tasks I need to tackle. I can't thank you all enough for helping me out here. Many, many thanks. Marsha