On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 12:18 AM Graydon graydon@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What's wrong with
>
> <xsl:template match="section">
>     <xsl:copy>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" mode="#current" />
>         <xsl:attribute name="id"
>           select="(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::target]/@refid,generate-id(.)) => head()" />
>         <xsl:apply-templates mode="#current" />
>     </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> I am assuming XSLT 3, here, but that should be a fairly safe assumption
> these days.

Thank you for the solution.  Yes I am using XSLT 3.0 (Saxon EE 9.8 in
Oxygen XML Editor 21.1), but haven't really made any special use of
the 3.0 features.  I don't know the arrow syntax you have used.  WIll
look it up in the spec.

Regards,
Raghavendra.