Thanks for the response!

You have answered my question about modifying the source very well.

I will try to post my XSLT code tomorrow when I get to work. It will 
probably help explain what I am trying to do.


thanks,

B



David Carlisle wrote:
> Barry Andrews <titanandrews@n...> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>    So the source is read only? That is good to know I suppose, although 
>>it seems odd to me. Anyway,
> 
> 
> It would be very hard to define any behaviour to an xslt transformation
> if the input could change during a transformation. There is no
> requirement on a processor to process any templates in any particular
> order, only that the results are combined into the final result tree as
> specified, so if templates could alter the input, the behaviour of every
> stylesheet would be undefined, as the input to each template would
> depend on implementation-specific choices of the order of template
> execution.
> 
> This is the usual behaviour of any declarative/functional language.
> If you evaluate a function f(x,y) a result is returned but there are no
> side effects, in particular the inputs to a unction are never changed.
> 
> 
> 
>>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?
>>
> 
> In a typical transformation the names of the result elements bear no
> relation at all to the names of the input elements. Think of converting
> docbook to html, or html to SVG or ... When generating the name of any
> element in the result you have access via xpath to any part of the
> source, so any information that caused you to generate the name FI on
> the parent element is available still so there is nothing to stop you
> generating an element name that contains the string _FI. However you
> haven't given any indication of the transformation that you are trying
> to so I can't offer any code.
> 
> David
>