I'm in the process of generating a new XML file using an XSL transform. I did wander if it was in the capabilities of XSL to create XML tags on the fly.

Example, my first XML file has:

<PROOFSOFID>
        <TYPEOFPROOF>AB</TYPEOFPROOF>
        <DETAILS>AB details</DETAILS>
</PROOFSOFID>
<PROOFSOFID>
        <TYPEOFPROOF>CD</TYPEOFPROOF>
        <DETAILS>CD Details</DETAILS>
</PROOFSOFID>

I would need my transform to create:

<PROOFID1>AB</PROOFID1>
<PROOFID2>CD</PROOFID2>
and so on.

If I had 4 in my xml file then I would need PROOF1 up to PROOF4.

Is this possible?

Sure you can do this, use a construct such as

<xsl:element name="{concat(name(), position()}">

Mind you, it's a pretty strange use of XML markup that you're trying to produce.

Michael Kay
http://saxon.sf.net/

How would you loop through or count the PROOFSOFID so that you know how many to create?

Thanks for the reply,
Francis

I think you should spend some time with a tutorial such as Jeni Tennison's "Beginning XSLT", or the online tutorials at zvon.org or w3schools.org

Michael Kay
http://saxon.sf.net/