[xsl] Design question

[Jay Burgess <jburgess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm attempting to use XSL to transform XML to XML.  The problem is that 
some child elements in the original XML are "attributes" of the new XML 
element, whereas other child "elements" are actually new child elements. 
That is:

BEFORE:
    <test type="positive" name="Test 1">
        <param name="p1">123</param>
        <param name="date1">July 9</param>
        <param name="p2">false</param>
    </test>

AFTER:
    <da:Positive name="Test 1" p1="123" p2="false">
       <da:Date number="1" value="July 9"/>
    </da:Positive>

(Notice that p1 and p2 become attributes of the new element, but date1 
becomes a new child element.)

From what I can tell, I need to accomplish the equivalent of the 
following, but haven't been able to come up with the way to do it:

(1) Iterate through all original <param>s. For each <param> that will 
become an attribute, do <xsl:attribute>. For each <param> that will become 
a child element, store it off to the side in a node set of some sort.

(2) When the iteration is complete, iterate through the node set built in 
(1), and do <xsl:element> on each.

Is this the right way to solve this problem?  If so, can someone provide 
some more detail, as nothing I've tried has worked. Or, is there a better way?

Thanks in advance.

Jay

-- Jay Burgess [jburgess@xxxxxxxxxxx]
   Digital Archaeology Corporation
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