Dear Friends, Here is a report which list books with accompanying materials (field 300$e). How can I leave null values in 300$e and list only exact values? SELECT ExtractValue(marcxml,'//datafield[@tag="300"]/subfield[@code="e"]') AS AccoMaterial, DATE_FORMAT(items.dateaccessioned, "%d %b %Y %h:%i %p") AS Date_accessioned,items.barcode,items.itemcallnumber,biblioitems.isbn,biblio.author,biblio.title,ExtractValue(marcxml,'//datafield[@tag="654"]/subfield[@code="a"]') AS SUBJECT,biblioitems.pages,biblioitems.publishercode,biblioitems.place,biblio.copyrightdate FROM items LEFT JOIN biblioitems ON (items.biblioitemnumber=biblioitems.biblioitemnumber) LEFT JOIN biblio ON (biblioitems.biblionumber=biblio.biblionumber) WHERE items.homebranch=<<Home branch|branches>> AND biblioitems.itemtype = <<Item Type|itemtypes>> ORDER BY items.barcode ASC Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in http://moovandan.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White