RE: How dynamic is XSL?

I assume that you want your output to be an equally arbitrary mix? 

Then that's easy to accomplish with xsl:template and xsl:apply-templates.
Just write a template for each of your elements, and these template rules
will fire whenever an element is found in the input document. 

If you would use xsl:for-each, then as you say if the xsl:for-each selects
links, these would be processed first, and then if you have a second
xsl:for-each select="text", the text would be processed next. xsl:for-each
involves building up the resutl and 'pulling' data from the source file,
while xsl:template/apply-templates involves reading the source XML and
'pushing' data to the result. 

I don't have a sample of your source so I'm leaving it at this rather
abstract explanation. 

Linda


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