>  I want to put markup in the attribute but that is illegal
> 
>  I like the idea of putting these alt(ernates) in attributes
>  rather than as tags cause it is much easier to maintain and much
>  more readable in the xml but - I am asking for too much in the
>  request above, it seems.
> 
Yes: XSLT is designed to produce XML as defined, not XML as you would have
preferred it to be defined.

Mike Kay


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