Leaving aside the question of why you are using <xsl:text> 
for the output you might find recursion more maintainable 
than "if" although a little more verbose. Perhaps something 
like this (untested).

<xsl:template match="prosody" name="format-prosody">
 <xsl:param name="atts" select="@*"/>

   <xsl:for-each select="$atts[1]">
   <xsl:choose>

    <xsl:when test="self::pitch='x-high'">
     <xsl:text>&lt;PITCH BASE="70%"&gt;</xsl:text>
     <xsl:call-template name="format-prosody">
	<xsl:with-param name="atts" select="$atts[position()>1]"/>
     </xsl:call-template>
     <xsl:text>&lt;/PITCH&gt;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:when>

    <xsl:when test="self::rate='slow'">
     <xsl:text>&lt;RATE SPEED="-40%"&gt;</xsl:text>
     <xsl:call-template name="format-prosody">
	<xsl:with-param name="atts" select="$atts[position()>1]"/>
     </xsl:call-template>
     <xsl:text>&lt;/RATE&gt;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:when>

    <xsl:otherwise>
     <xsl:call-template name="format-prosody">
	<xsl:with-param name="atts" select="$atts[position()>1]"/>
     </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:otherwise>

   </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:for-each>

   <xsl:if test="count($atts)=0">
	   <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

Kev.

On Saturday 04 December 2004 17:34, Paul Giannaros wrote:
> On Saturday 04 December 2004 13:45, George Cristian Bina 
wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > You can do something like below:
> >
> > <xsl:if test="@pitch='x-high'">
> >      <xsl:text>&lt;PITCH BASE="70%"&gt;</xsl:text>
> >      <xsl:if test="@rate='slow'">
> >          <xsl:text>&lt;RATE SPEED="-40%"&gt;</xsl:text>
> >          <xsl:apply-templates/>
> >          <xsl:text>&lt;/RATE&gt;</xsl:text>
> >      </xsl:if>
> >      <xsl:text>&lt;/PITCH&gt;</xsl:text>
> > </xsl:if>
>
> That would work, but would not be very practical. There
> are quite a few options and this would force me to have
> to write a _very_ long nested if statement. Any other
> solutions?
>
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