Re: creating top-level elements from within child ele

templates are not "owned" by elements in the result tree they are distinguished by being matched to elements in the input. They then
generate a fragment of the output.

Clearly a single template can generate A1 and A2 as siblings rather than
A2 being a child of A1. You just make them siblings rather than a child
in the output.

you say

and not the default

 <A>
     <A1>
           <A2/>
   </A1>
 </A>

But that is not the default. the default behaviour just gives you the
character content and no elements at all in the result tree.
You only have A2 as a child of A1 as that's the way you have it in your
stylesheet 9as I said in my first reply)

Thanks
Rahil