Hi,

> I am busy creating help files for our product (which will be 
> xml/xsl driven).  I am stumped on one portion of our design.  
> sample input:  (select everything that is a descendent of 
> //xs:xmlSample and return it with modifications)
>
[snip]
> 
> the output in html will be almost exactly that of the input 
> (unless they are openning nodes, such as ResponseTranslation, 
> Maps, Map, Inputs, or Input; in which case, the name is 
> reprinted and a link is created to an anchor elsewhere on the 
> same page).  

That is, you want a verbatim formatter/XML serializer written in XSLT? See e.g. <http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~obecker/XSLT/#xmlverbatim> and modity that to create the links.
 
Cheers,

Jarno

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