Hello all, I find myself once again confounded by an SQL problem. I am trying to extract the value from field 245, ind2 . I have used a variety of select statements without success, i.e. SELECT EXTRACTVALUE(marcxml,'//datafield[@tag="245"][ind2]') as "SkipArticle" or SELECT EXTRACTVALUE(marcxml,'//datafield[@tag="245"]/subfield[@code="ind2"]') as "SkipArticle" Those are two of the variations I have tried. There are probably another 20 along the way. When I look at the marcxml field I see that ind1 and ind2 are on the same line as the 245 identifier, and not in a subfield line. For instance: <datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"> <subfield code="a">Biology unmoored :</subfield> <subfield code="b">Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology /</subfield> A number of my attempts have not returned a syntax error, they just never return a value. So what would the SQL/Xpath syntax be to get the info out of ind2 ? Thanks in advance for your help, Doug Dearden Director, IT School for Advanced Research (505)954-7220 sarweb.org