Using XSL to include non-XML data?

  I am having a hard time trying to figure out how to ask this question.  
Here is a shot at it.  I have a list of n text elements in a Java 
application.  I also have an XML document that has a list of n 
sub-elements.  I want to write an XSL rule so that the i'th element in 
the XML document will be rendered using an XSL rule that will put the 
text of the i'th element from the java application as output.  Is this 
possible?  Or should I be looking at this problem in a different way?

  The only two things that strike me are:

1. Running the XML data through two stylesheets.  The first stylesheet
will generate a second stylesheet that creates n template rules for each 
XML subelement with a xsl:param statement and a variable reference.  When
the data is rendered a second time, then it will grab the params from the
java application and substitute the variable references.  This idea scares
me.

2. Create an extension that will do this.  An example could be:
   <my_extension:insert name="sub_element" value="position()"/>
I am not even sure if this is possible (I am using Xalan).

-Tom

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