Arnost Sobota wrote:
> Thank you for your answer. I realise that my statement of the problem 
> was dramatically confused.
> 
> What my XSLT code is doing is copy the input XML document to the output 
> document, with some alterations, but on the whole the structure of the 
> output file follows that of the input file.
> (Hence my faulty reference to "context nodes", input and output 
> mishmashed in my head).
> 
> 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.

Nope. You have to provide for this in your code at the point[s] where 
the branch of the output tree is being built where you might want to add 
the new node[s]. In effect, at those places, you need to perform a test 
by looking into the relevant place[s] in the source tree to decide 
whether or not you need to create a new node in the output tree. There 
are a number of nasty kludges to get around this, but getting the code 
right is really the only effective way to do it.

///Peter
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