Hello Mark,

> yup - hance the query for assistance from wiser and more experienced XSLT
> minds than mine... I _think_ I see a way to do this, but it seems kind-of 
> a
> rube-goldbergian approach, and I was really hoping wiser minds might've 
> been
> able to step in and say something like: "Oh, you want to do this..."/"Oh,
> look at this example over here..."

well, the typical cycle of XSL's is sequential with loops, so I think 
repeated back and forward jumps (from items to things and back) are quite 
artificial, not designated or maybe even impossible.

> I hate to disagree, but that *is* an Iron-clad 100% guarantee in this 
> case.
> What we're doing here is building a template for an off-line series of
> processes.

Okay, it might be 100% guaranteed - despite I won't do it that way (with 
your XML structure).

> OK, well this is really the same transformation I posted to you only it's 
> in
> XML vs TEXT form, isn't it?  I still need to get "there" from "here"...

No, my proposed structure is proper XML and no "TEXT". Additionally I just 
decided to convert the node values into node attributes.

Nice greetings from
nontoxic