RE: Closing and reopening hierarchically structured e

> The second step involves closing all ancestor elements before 
> my table.
> Generating an <fo:block span="all">, including my table markup within
> and re-opening my closed ancestor elements (including all attributes
> defined before).

no, no! XSLT instructions write nodes to a tree, they don't "open" and
"close" elements. Writing a node is an indivisible operation.

Read http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping, and inwardly absorb...

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/