xml - xslt writing to uncles of a context in a for-each -

i have following input:

<element1>     <elelment2/> </element1> 

and i'm grabbing node set bunch of files , inserting many elements find in node set using:

<xsl:variable name="root" select="/" /> <xsl:variable name="id" saxon:assignable="yes" select="0"/>  <xsl:variable name="views" select="collection('file:/c:/temp/?select=*.xml;recurse=yes')"/>      <xsl:template match="node()|@*">     <xsl:copy>         <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>     </xsl:copy> </xsl:template>  <xsl:template match="/element1/element2">     <xsl:copy>         <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | *"/>          <xsl:for-each select="$views/element3[somefilter]">                          <element3 name="{@name}" xmi.id="{$id}"/>             <saxon:assign name="id"><xsl:value-of select="$id+1"/></saxon:assign>        </xsl:for-each>     </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> 

this works great getting following:

<element1>     <elelment2>         <element3 name="view1" id="0"/>         <element3 name="view2" id="1"/>         <element3 name="view3" id="2"/>     </element2> </element1> 

but i'd use same node set information create parent elements final output is:

<element1>     <elelment2>         <element3 name="view1" id="0"/>         <element3 name="view2" id="1"/>         <element3 name="view3" id="2"/>     </element2>     <element2 name="view1" id="0"/>     <element2 name="view2" id="1"/>     <element2 name="view3" id="2"/> </element1> 

thus, generated id's , names have line , in different levels of tree not ancestors or children of each other.

element2 , element3 quite different i'm possibly attempting generate 2 node sets same data @ same time because of id value , apply node sets in different locations.

any insight appreciated!

i don't quite see creating "parent elements". why don't try like:

xslt 2.0

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xsl/transform"> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>  <xsl:variable name="views" select="collection('file:/c:/temp/?select=*.xml;recurse=yes')"/>       <!-- identity transform --> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">     <xsl:copy>         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>     </xsl:copy> </xsl:template>  <xsl:template match="element1">     <xsl:copy>         <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | *"/>          <xsl:for-each select="$views/element3">                          <element2 name="{@name}" id="{position()}"/>         </xsl:for-each>     </xsl:copy> </xsl:template>  <xsl:template match="element2">     <xsl:copy>         <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | *"/>          <xsl:for-each select="$views/element3">                          <element3 name="{@name}" xmi.id="{position()}"/>         </xsl:for-each>     </xsl:copy> </xsl:template>  </xsl:stylesheet>