[xsl] Is it possible to access a tag after using apply-templates?

Subject: [xsl] Is it possible to access a tag after using apply-templates?
From: XemonerdX <xemonerdx@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:56:16 +0200
Is the following possible? I can't seem to wrap my head around it, but
I am an XSLT newbie, so that might explain it :)

I have an XML file that contains data that needs to be displayed:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<top>
	<data>
		<title>title of page</title>
		<name>Your name</name>
	</data>
	<cells>
		<cell>
			<name>cell 1</name>
			<value>100</value>
		</cell>
		<cell>
			<name>cell 2</name>
			<value>200</value>
		</cell>
		<cell>
			<name>cell 3</name>
			<value>300</value>
		</cell>
	</cells>
</top>

I also have a layout XML file that will be used to put the data from
the above XML-file into a certain layout, called layout.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout>
	<layout-main>
<html>
<head>
	<title><insert-title/></title>
</head>
<body>
	<div>
		My name is: <insert-name/>
	</div>
	<div>
		<table>
			<insert-cells/>
		</table>
	</div>
</body>
</html>
	</layout-main>
	<layout-cell>
		<tr>
			<td><insert-cell-name/></td>
			<td><insert-cell-value/></td>
		</tr>
	</layout-cell>
</layout>

And then I have the XSL file to tie it all together (hopefully!):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="data" select="/"/>
<xsl:variable name="layout"
select="document('http://localhost/webopac2/xml/datatemplate_layout.xml')"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:apply-templates select="$layout/layout/layout-main/*"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- transformations -->
<xsl:template match="insert-name">
	<xsl:value-of select="$data/top/data/name"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="insert-title">
	<xsl:value-of select="$data/top/data/title"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="insert-cells">
	<xsl:for-each select="$data/top/cells/cell">
		<xsl:variable name="name" select="name"/>
		<xsl:variable name="value" select="value/*"/>
		<xsl:apply-templates select="$layout/layout/layout-cell/tr">
			<xsl:with-param name="name" select="$name"/>
		</xsl:apply-templates>
		<xsl:call-template name="insert-cell-name">
			<xsl:with-param name="name" select="$name"/>
		</xsl:call-template>
	</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="insert-cell-name">
	<xsl:param name="name"/>
	<xsl:value-of select="$name"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Identity transformation -->
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I would like the output to look like the following:
<html>
<head>
	<title>title of page</title>
</head>
<body>
	<div>
		My name is: Your name
	</div>
	<div>
		<table>
			<tr>
				<td>cell 1</td>
				<td>100</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td>cell 2</td>
				<td>200</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td>cell 3</td>
				<td>300</td>
			</tr>
		</table>
	</div>
</body>
</html>

Unfortunately that's not quite the result. I can't seem to be able to
replace the 'insert-cell-name' and 'insert-cell-value' tags with the
corresponding 'name' and 'value' tag values. Is this possible?

The reason I want to keep as much layout out of the XLS-file as
possible is to allow non-developers to design a layout without knowing
XSLT. This way I can hopefully also use a single XLS-file where
'layout.xml' can be easily changed/generated.

Thanxxx for any guidance/advice/comments...

Edwin

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