Hi,

    So the source is read only? That is good to know I suppose, although 
it seems odd to me. Anyway, let me try to explain a little more. My 
target document might look like this:

<TARGET>
    <FI name="Changed">
       <CHILD_FI name="Changed_1"/>
    </FI>
</TARGET>

Notice that CHILD_FI name is based on FI. (with _1 appended) But I 
cannot do this, because when I select the name from the parent, I get 
the old name which is A. So instead my new name would end up being A_1, 
which is not what I want.
Make sense?

many thanks,

B

David Carlisle wrote:
> "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
>