Try escaping the opening of the XSL tags that you want in the output with
>. This should disambiguate what is essentially text and what is active. 
Cheers,
David

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	alan dennis [SMTP:alan_l_dennis@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 10, 1998 4:24 PM
> To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	xsl + xsl -> xsl
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to transform XSL using XSL.  The idea here is to have 
> device independent XSL that represents general layout and then apply a 
> device specific XSL and take the result and apply it to XML.  My problem 
> at this point is I can't seem to modify an attribute tag.  Here's an 
> example:
> 
> <table-cell>
> <xsl:attribute name="n-columns-spanned"><xsl:value-of 
> select="//YAXIS/@MAXDESCCOUNT"/></xsl:attribute>
> <xsl:attribute name="n-rows-spanned"><xsl:value-of 
> select="//XAXIS/@ROWCOUNT"/></xsl:attribute>
> </table-cell>
> 
> should turn into plain old
> 
> <TD>
> <xsl:attribute name="COLSPAN">
> <xsl:value-of select="//YAXIS/@MAXDESCCOUNT"/>
> </xsl:attribute>
> <xsl:attribute name="ROWSPAN"><xsl:value-of 
> select="//XAXIS/@ROWCOUNT"/></xsl:attribute>
> </TD>
> 
> However I can't seem to insert an xsl:attribute tag without it being 
> interpreted as my wanting to add an attribute.  
> 
> My motivation for doing the transformation in this order is that the XML 
> involved is much larger than the XSLs.
> 
> I'm using IE5's MSXML parser.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan.
> 
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