Arnost Sobota wrote:

> So the XLST script copies the nodes step by step as the input tree is 
> parsed, and sometimes has to create a new element (<xsl:element/>). When 
> this happens, the new element is placed at the point at which the result 
> tree is currently located. This is obvious.
> 
> What I was asking is: how can I created an element which would be placed 
> not at the current position but at some specified, previously built, 
> node of the result tree.

That is not really possible (at least not in XSLT 1.0 with one single 
transformation), there is one result tree that is built while the XSLT 
instructions are executed. You can store a result tree fragment in a 
variable and insert that later with xsl:copy-of somewhere else in the 
result tree but that is somehow the other way round than you are asking 
for.
Besides that you can, if the XSLT processor has an extension function, 
convert a result tree fragment to a node set and apply XPath on that 
node set again.
But the construction of the result tree is driven by instantiating the 
templates in the order they are processed and those templates are part 
of a well-formed XML document, the XSLT stylesheet.
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	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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