> 
> As a little side project, I've been working on a generic looping
> template 
> which will produce a formatted xml tree based on a format input tree and
> 
> the list that is passed in. Basically, it is an XML equivalent of
> printf, 
> except it loops over a list. I was hoping that the gurus on the list
> could 
> point out any efficiencies or changes I could make to the XSL which
> would 
> make it work faster or more standard. I'm putting a description below.
> 
> I very much appreciate anybody's time that they can spend improving my 
> idea.

you might like to look here, something that could give you ideas.
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~obecker/XSLT/

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