Seconded. Perl is my tool of choice, but for this problem XSLT is the right way.

Update: Added stylesheet 
<?xml version='1.0' ?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" versi
+on="1.0">
  
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
  <xsl:preserve-space elements="*" />

  <xsl:template match="/businesses">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:for-each select="./entity">
        <block>

          <xsl:attribute name="name">
            <xsl:value-of select="./@name" />
          </xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:attribute name="min">
            <xsl:value-of select="./child::product/@min" />
          </xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:attribute name="max">
            <xsl:value-of select="./child::product/@max" />
          </xsl:attribute>

          <xsl:for-each select = ".//description">
            <xsl:if test="name(./parent::*)!='item'">
              <xsl:copy>
                <xsl:value-of select = "." />
              </xsl:copy>
            </xsl:if>
          </xsl:for-each>

          <xsl:for-each select = ".//item">
              <xsl:copy-of select="." />
          </xsl:for-each>

        </block>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template> 
</xsl:stylesheet>

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holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to Re^2: String Manipulation Help Required by holli
in thread String Manipulation Help Required by Anonymous Monk

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