> -----Original Message-----
> From:     Kevin Jones <kjones@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:  Re:  Recursive calls to a named template

I tried your solution, which sounds like a better tack than the one I proposed, but no <signature> elements were copied from related <group> elements. 

Here is the stylesheet:
=================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
 <xsl:key name="GroupByIdentifier" match="group" use="identifier[1]"/>

<xsl:template match="signature">
 <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="count(../identifier[2])>0">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="key('GroupByIdentifier',../identifier[2])/signature"/>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
    </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:otherwise>
 </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
 <xsl:copy>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
 </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

and here is the output:
=================
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<formatted-xml>
  <group>
    <identifier>a</identifier>
    <signature>signature
      <identifier>DNSQuery1</identifier>
      <in>in
        <long>long</long>
        <identifier>ant</identifier>
      </in>
   </signature>
  </group>

  <group>
    <identifier>b</identifier>
    <identifier>a</identifier>
    <signature>signature
      <identifier>DNSQuery1</identifier>
      <in>in
        <long>long</long>
        <identifier>ant</identifier>
      </in>
   </signature>
  </group>

  <group>
    <identifier>c</identifier>
    <identifier>b</identifier>
    <signature>signature
      <identifier>DNSQuery1</identifier>
      <in>in
        <long>long</long>
        <identifier>ant</identifier>
      </in>
   </signature>
  </group>
</formatted-xml>

What did I miss in your explanation?
-- 
Charles Knell
cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email




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