Many thanks for the replies so far. I'm now progressing to look at the
mapping file or "high-level description of a stereotyped transformation",
and was wondering whether I could use xpath statements in this file to
identify data I want to extract from particular elements/attributes, or
identify even the elements themselves.

The question that subsequently arises when creating a mapping file as such
is: Can one pass xpath statements as variables into templates, and then act
on them (against the source document)?

Thanks,
Alistair - alistair.power@xxxxxxxxx
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It sounds to me as if you should treat your "configuration file" as a
high-level description of a stereotyped transformation, and use it to
generate a specific XSLT stylesheet for a particular transformation. You
can do this stylesheet generation in XSLT, of course.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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