Adding attributes to all ancestors of a given node (wa

        I am trying to simply duplicate an XML tree with the addition of
adding an attribute to all the ancestors of a given element.

<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:if test="descendant::*[@task='1']">
      <xsl:attribute name="task">
         <!-- your attribute's value goes here -->
      </xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:if>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

Cheers,
Wendell

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