"titanandrews@h..." <titanandrews@h...> writes:

> Hi,
> 
>   I have ran into a situation that I think should be possible, but I am
> fairly new to XSLT so maybe not.
> 
> Suppose I have the following document
> <ROOT>
>    <FOO name="A">
>       <CHILD name="B"/>
>    </FOO>
> </ROOT>
> 
> I am creating a new XML doc using XSLT, and I change the name attribute
> of the first node FOO in my target doc. The name attribute of CHILD is
> dependent on it's parent, i.e. it's built from the parent name. So I
> select the parent name with XPATH "../@Name", but it returns the name
> from the source document. I need the name from the target document,
> because the old name is no good. How can I do this? Is it possible to
> modify a source node in XSLT? I can modify a DOM document in a program
> easily, so it seems like it would be possible to do in XSLT. If I can
> do this, then the task will be easy. Are there any other ways to
> achieve this?
> 
> 
> Many thanks for the help!
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> B

XSLT input tree is read only, however as far as I understand your
description you don't want to modify the source just generate a new
element with some name. You haven't given any indication of what element
name you need to generate. Also it needs to be @name not @Name, XML is
case sensitive.

What result document do you need to generate given the above input??

David