The stylesheet below is doing something very close to what
you want, regards,
 
Juliane. 
 
 
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"> 
 
 <xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>  
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="DATETIME">
  <xsl:variable name="qualifier">
   <xsl:value-of select="@qualifier"/>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:element name="{concat($qualifier,'_DATE')}">
   <xsl:value-of select="YEAR"/>/<xsl:value-of
select="MONTH"/>/<xsl:value-of select="DAY"/> 
  </xsl:element>
 </xsl:template>
 
</xsl:stylesheet>


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