XSL -XML to XSL reorienting node

Friends,
I have been fuzting around with this for a while and I am close but
still no cigar. (I don't smoke, but you know what I mean.)

What I have got is an XML document that has a very deep (6-8 levels)
hierarchy.  These levels are relevant to the data, but the data nodes
are very homogeneous (all music scores). I would just reproduce them
but I need to do things to each of these wrapper nodes (adding bells
and whistles, etc.). Instead of trying to write templates for all
these levels, I decided to write a stylesheet that transforms my XML
document into a stylesheet of templates.

Of course the key is to exclude the stylesheet from writing a
template for each of the data children nodes. When I did this the
first problem was that when the stylesheet found an excluded child
and it stopped and reoriented itself to the next major node (though
it was about 4 nodes deep when it was found). I thought it would go
to the next following sibling node. I figured that I needed to write
a loop to reorient the processing node to the following-sibling when
the current child was an excluded node. But my loop is not working.

What I am wondering is why I cannot seem to exclude the children
nodes and still get the parent nodes when I reorient my
apply-templates.

Could someone give me a hint?

Sincerely,
Mike Ferrando
Washington, DC

XSL:
This is the xsl without the reorient node loop written in. It stops
when it reaches an unwanted child.

<xsl:template match="node()[not(SCRGRP | SCRGRPX | NON-SCORE |
SCORE)]">
  <xsl:variable name="ta">xsl</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="tb">template</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="bbb" select="concat($ta, ':', $tb)"/>
  <xsl:variable name="atb">apply-templates</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="apply" select="concat($ta, ':', $atb)"/>
    <xsl:if test="child::*">
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="name()=''">
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:element name="{$bbb}">
            <xsl:attribute name="match">
              <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
            </xsl:attribute>
              <xsl:element name="{$apply}">
                <xsl:attribute name="select">
                  <!-- <xsl:call-template name="check"/> -->
                  <xsl:value-of select="name(child::*)"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
              </xsl:element>
          </xsl:element>
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()[not(SCRGRP | SCRGRPX | NON-SCORE
| SCORE)]"/>
</xsl:template>

XSL:
This is the same xsl but I wrote in the reoreintation loop (which
doesn't work).

<xsl:template match="node">
  <xsl:variable name="ta">xsl</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="tb">template</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="bbb" select="concat($ta, ':', $tb)"/>
  <xsl:variable name="atb">apply-templates</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="apply" select="concat($ta, ':', $atb)"/>
    <xsl:if test="child::*()[not(SCRGRP | SCRGRPX | NON-SCORE |
SCORE)]">
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="name()=''">
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:element name="{$bbb}">
            <xsl:attribute name="match">
              <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
            </xsl:attribute>
              <xsl:element name="{$apply}">
                <xsl:attribute name="select">
                  <!-- <xsl:call-template name="check"/> -->
                  <xsl:value-of select="name(child::*)"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
              </xsl:element>
          </xsl:element>
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="child::*[not(NON-SCORE | SCRGRP | SCRGRPX | SCORE)]">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
	<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1]"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

XML:
This is the part of the schema of my document.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<schema>
   <element name="NEWLAND_ZEUNER_COLLECTION" occurs="1">
- <element name="VOCAL_MUSIC" occurs="1">
- <element name="Sacred_vocal_music__Latin" occurs="1">
- <element name="Masses_-_Printed_music" occurs="1">
- <element name="SCRGRP" occurs="9">
  <element name="C100_C" occurs="9" /> 
- <element name="SCORE" occurs="9">
  <element name="CT" occurs="9" /> 
- <element name="TP" occurs="9">
  <element name="S" occurs="2" /> 
  </element>
  <element name="PL" occurs="6" /> 
  <element name="PB" occurs="7" /> 
  <element name="C1007" occurs="10" /> 
  <element name="DT" occurs="2" /> 
  </element>
  </element>
- <element name="OTHER_MUSIC" occurs="1">
- <element name="SCORE" occurs="3">
  <element name="CT" occurs="3" /> 
  <element name="TP" occurs="3" /> 
  <element name="C1007" occurs="2" /> 
  </element>
  </element>
  </element>
- <element name="Masses_-_Manuscripts" occurs="1">
- <element name="SCRGRP" occurs="46">
  <element name="C100_C" occurs="46" /> 
- <element name="SCORE" occurs="79">
  <element name="CT" occurs="79" /> 
- <element name="TM" occurs="79">
  <element name="S" occurs="1" /> 
  <element name="DT" occurs="6" /> 
  </element>
  <element name="C1007" occurs="73" /> 
  <element name="C1011" occurs="5" /> 
- <element name="C1009" occurs="5">
  <element name="LISTHEAD" occurs="5" /> 
  <element name="ITEM" occurs="18" /> 
  </element>
  </element>
  </element>
- <element name="OTHER_MUSIC" occurs="1">
- <element name="SCORE" occurs="4">
  <element name="CT" occurs="4" /> 
  <element name="TM" occurs="3" /> 
  <element name="C1007" occurs="2" /> 
  <element name="TO" occurs="1" /> 
  </element>
  </element>
  </element>




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