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Hi Phil

Thank you very, very much!
Going over this, and "re-going" over the original feeds source, most (if not all) of this makes sense.

For a start, I never realised you could set up styling in XSL as you would in basic HTML with <style media="all" lang="en" type="text/css">.
That's a big bonus (should've remembered my html basics, I suppose).  Also seems that one has better control over styling if the elements
are sitting in divs. The examples I used didn't utilize this much.

Could you please elobarate on the variables you set and what they do, more specifically:

<xsl:variable name="link" select="link"/>
  <xsl:variable name="description" select="description"/>
  <xsl:variable name="image" select="image/url"/>
  <xsl:variable name="idesc" select="image/description"/>
  <xsl:variable name="ilink" select="image/link"/>
  <xsl:variable name="iwide" select="image/width"/>
  <xsl:variable name="ihigh" select="image/height"/>

Think this might help newbies like me to better understand what they're looking at.
Otherwise, this XSL templates make sense.  Again, thank you for this - massive help.

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FOR THOSE WHO MISSED OUT ON THE FIRST PORTION OF THE THREAD,
here's the source for an awesome XSL Transformation File iWonder hooked me up with.
For newbie's like me, it's a great place to learn...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl"
   xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<!-- RSSv2.0 XSL stylesheet -->
<!-- Displays only 5 items and only 120 char of content:encoded text -->
<!-- 2008/05/21 By Request -->
<!-- Author: Phil 'iwonder' Guerra -->
<!-- Use with Author Attribution Please -->
<!-- ================================== -->

<xsl:template match="/">
<style media="all" lang="en" type="text/css">
.rssChannelTitle
{
 font-family:  Tahoma;
   font-size:  13pt;
 font-weight:  bold;
  text-align:  Left;
}
.rssChannelDescription
{
 font-family: Times;
   font-size: 11pt;
 font-weight: Bold;
  text-align: Left;
}
.rssItemTitle
{
 font-family:  Verdana;
   font-size:  10pt;
   font-weight: BOLD;
 font-color: #00000;
}
.rssItemDescription
{
 font-family:  Verdana;
   font-size:  10pt;
   font-weight:  Normal;
 font-color: red;
}
.rssItemPubDate
{
 font-family:  Times;
   font-size:  8pt;
   font-weight:  Normal;
 font-color: #000000;
}
</style>

<div>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="rss/channel"/>
  </div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="rss/channel">
<xsl:variable name="link" select="link"/>
  <xsl:variable name="description" select="description"/>
  <xsl:variable name="image" select="image/url"/>
  <xsl:variable name="idesc" select="image/description"/>
  <xsl:variable name="ilink" select="image/link"/>
  <xsl:variable name="iwide" select="image/width"/>
  <xsl:variable name="ihigh" select="image/height"/>

<div class="rssChannelTitle">
 <xsl:if test="$image">
    <a href="{$ilink}" title="{$idesc}"><xsl:value-of select="ilink" /></a>
    <img src="{$image}" height="{$ihigh}" width="{$iwide}" style="float: left; margin: 2px; border: 0px;"/>
 </xsl:if> 
 <a href="{$link}"><xsl:value-of select="title" /></a><br/>
 </div>
<div class="rssChannelDescription">
 <xsl:value-of select="substring(description,1,120)" disable-output-escaping="no"/><br/>
</div>
<div class="rssChannelsubHead">
 <xsl:value-of select="webMaster"/><br/>
 <xsl:value-of select="copyright"/><br/>
 <xsl:value-of select="lastBuildDate"/>
 <hr/>
</div>

  <xsl:apply-templates select="item"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="item">
<xsl:if test="position() &lt; 6"> <!-- limit the display to 5 items -->
  <xsl:variable name="item_link" select="link"/>
  <div class="rssItemTitle">
    <a href="{$item_link}" ><xsl:value-of select="title" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></a>
</div>
<div class="rssItemPubDate">
 (<xsl:value-of select="pubDate"/>)
</div>
<div class="rssItemDescription">
 <xsl:value-of select="substring(content:encoded,4,120)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>...<br/>
</div> <hr/>
</xsl:if> <!-- end of If statement block for limiting number of items -->
 </xsl:template>

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