Re: Specify/determine element's "logical" parent

> then somehow map the ID to an actual node; doe

If your id attributes are declared to be of type ID in a DTD this is
simply

select="id(@parentid)"

If they arenot so declared use a key instead

<xsl:key name="ids" match="*[@id]" use="@id"/>
...

select="key('ids',@parentid)"

David

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