> The way you are thinking about this is completely inverse of how XSLT
works.


Yes, I know. I remember M Kay saying "you gotta unlearn procedural
programming".

But sometimes there's a big blue bad machine called a mainframe,
with Cobol programs that add data to an
XML as if they were flat files. :)

I've solved it finally. I'll post my solution, if anyone's interested.

/Thomas


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