hi, i'm looking for a tool recommendation for the following project.  the
tool needs
to run on solaris.

i have a large volume of xml (and a lot of compute power too) which i need
to transform
into a simple non-xml format.

the xml is somewhat like this

<a> 
   big a here
	<b> xxx</b>
	<c> yyy<c>
</a> 

it needs to map to something like

-A- big a here
-B- xxx
-C- yyy
-end-

but, <a>  tags can be nested.  so we have something like

<a> 
   big a here
	<b> xxx</b>
	<c> yyy<c>
	<a> 
  	little a here
		<c> zzz<c>
	</a> 
</a> 

that maps to 

-A- big a here
-B- xxx
-C- yyy
-end-
-A- little a here
-B- xxx
-C- zzz
-end-

the tricky part is, the <a>  tags that are further down _sometimes_ "inherit"
elements from the ones that are further up in the heirarchy.   i also need
to do a little manipulation of the cdata, say upcase all the letters.

anyway, i need a tool that will help me out.  i've been using xml::parser,
but it is a little
tedious.  is axkit appropriate?  some other xslt?  will they be able to do
this kind of thing?

help greatly appreciated,
archie