Oops I have taken too literally - I apoligize for not describing the problem
a little better.
To be more concrete, I need to parse through well formed HTML.
I have an structure that looks like the following:

<hr><p><b> Periodical Subject </b></p></hr>
<i> Peridocal Subject Desc <i>
<table>
  <tr>
    <th> garbage text </th>
    <th> more garbage text </th>
    <th> even more junk </th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> Periodical Title </td>
    <td> Periodical Author (assume to be a single element) </td>
    <td> Periodical length (in pages) </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> Periodical Title </td>
    <td> Periodical Author (assume to be a single element) </td>
    <td> Periodical length (in pages) </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> Periodical Title </td>
    <td> Periodical Author (assume to be a single element) </td>
    <td> Periodical length (in pages) </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> Periodical Title </td>
    <td> Periodical Author (assume to be a single element) </td>
    <td> Periodical length (in pages) </td>
  </tr>
</table>
.
.
<the entire block appears here again, with a different subject until all the
subject are exhausted>


What I need to turn this into is

<periodical-list>
  <periodical>
    <subject> Periodical Subject </subject>
    <desc> Periodical Subject Desc </desc>
    <title> Periodical Title </title>
    <author> Periodical Author </author>
    <length> Periodical Length </length>
  </periodical>

  <periodical>
    AND SO ON UNTIL ALL PERIODICAL SUBJECTS AND PERIODICALS ARE EXHAUSTED
  </periodical>
</periodical-list>

Any ideas?

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 5:44 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XSL problem




> <Xn>

is that _really_ what you want with dynamically generated element names.
You can have that if that's what you want, but it is immoral, you should
be asking for at least <X num="n">

David


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