<xsl:template match="/">
	&lt;<xsl:value-of select="@title"/>&gt;2000&lt;/<xsl:value-of
select="@title"/>&gt;  

This is valid, it's just a strange thing to do, unless you are trying to
describe XML elements in an HTML <pre> or something. That is
it is making some text that looks like an element markup, it 
isn't making an element. In this case however @title will be empty
I would assume it would produce the text &lt;&gt;2000&lt;/&gt;.

	<xsl:element name="{@title}">2000</xsl:element>
This would be valid if the current node had a title attribute that was
supplying the characters to make a valid XML element name.
But as this template is for the root node, there can't be any
attributes. so @title must be empty, and so this is the same as

	<xsl:element name="">2000</xsl:element>
which is an error as <>2000</> is not well formed XML.
So in this case you should get an error from the xsl system.

</xsl:template> 

David


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