Sounds as if you're doing the right thing: 

apply-templates select="//figure[@id="current()/@figures]"

(or using keys would be faster)

This will process the referenced figure, as a sort of subroutine, and
then return to continue where the processing left off, dealing with the
figureAnchor. 

But it seems you've coded it wrong. The usual plea therefore - we can't
debug your code without seeing it.

Michael Kay


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Ryan Graham
> Sent: 16 September 2003 18:41
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Problem relocating nodes and then applying templates
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I currently have the following type of reference scattered 
> throughout an XML document (used as place-holders):
> 
> <figureAnchor figures="c01-fig-xxxx"/>   ["xxxx" is some number]
> 
> all of which reference a node structure at the end of the xml file:
> 
> <figureGroup>
>     <figure id="c01-fig-0001">
>         <graphic xlink:href="file://images/someimage1.jpg" />
>         <caption>
>             <p>Figure caption 1</p>
>         </caption>
>     </figure>
>     <figure id="c01-fig-0002">
>         <graphic xlink:href="file://images/someimage2.jpg" />
>         <caption>
>             <p>Figure caption 2</p>
>         </caption>
>     </figure>
>     ...
> </figureGroup>
> 
> When I come upon a <figureAnchor> tag during the transform to 
> an FO document, is there anyway to grab the proper node from 
> the end of the document, insert it at the <figureAnchor> 
> location, and then apply-templates to format the elements??  
> I've tried copy-of, but this only writes the raw XML to the 
> output FO file.  When trying apply-templates, the processor 
> jumps to the <figureGroup> at the end of the file, and 
> proceeds to process from there (skipping the processing of 
> the rest of the xml file between <figureAnchor> and <figureGroup>).
> 
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ryan Graham
> Digital Content Developer
> Ryan.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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