Please try this stylesheet

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />

<xsl:template match="/root">
  <root>
    <xsl:for-each select="book">
      <book>
        <xsl:for-each select="*">
          <xsl:element name="{name()}">
            <xsl:choose>
              <xsl:when test="contains(., 'answerTo')">
                <xsl:value-of select="../../answers/answer[@id = 
substring-after(current(), 'answerTo')]" />
              </xsl:when>
              <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
              </xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
          </xsl:element>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </book>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </root>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Mukul

"siac99" wrote:

> I want to turn this:
> 
> <root>
> 	<book>
> 		<name>answerToce02dde2-07a5-4a7a-9c72-51e97c13af8d</name>
> 		<author>answerTo47f8c10a-2032-4de3-9862-6056850f8002</author>
> 		<year>1986</year>
> 	</book>
> 
> 	<answers>
> 		<answer id="ce02dde2-07a5-4a7a-9c72-51e97c13af8d">Xslt for
> dummies</answer>
> 		<answer id="47f8c10a-2032-4de3-9862-6056850f8002">Bob</answer>
> 	</answers>
> </root>
> 
> Into this:
> 
> <root>
> 	<book>
> 		<name>Xslt for dummies</name>
> 		<author>Bob</author>
> 		<year>1986</year>
> 	</book>
> </root>
> 
> In summary: I want to find the element 'book', and for each of its
> nodes see if it contains the string 'answerTo'. If it does
> 
> then replace the nodes text with the text of the element 'answer' whos
> Id attribute mathches the 32 characters next to the 'answerTo' string.
> 
> Is is possible to do this with XSLT? If so then how? Can someone point
> me in the right direction please?
> 
> Cheers, any help is appreciated.
> 
>