Re: Simple Question

I know that this is a really simple question but I just can't seem to
figure it out. I want to print out xml if a certain condition is true,
so I thought the bottom would work, but of course it isn't valid xml.
Any ideas?

<xsl:if test="$a != $times">
<xqx:orOp>
<xqx:firstOperand>
</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="somecondition">
   <sometag>  <!-- open the tag -->
</xsl:if>

<xsl:if test="somecondition">
  </sometag>   <!-- close the tag -->
</xsl:if>

<xsl:template match="somematch">
  <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="$a != $times" >
      <xsl:apply-templates select="somechild" mode="create-orOp" />
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="somechild" />
  <xsl:otherwise>
  <xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="somechild"  mode="create-orOp">
   <xqx:orOp>
       <xqx:firstOperand>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="self::somechild" />
       </xqx:firstOperand>
   </xqx:orOp>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="somechild">
   ... do something ...
</xsl:template>

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma
  http://www.nuntia.nl