[xsl] Confusion with generated xsl

["ian.proudfoot@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello XSL community,

I have been creating a content conversion system using XSLT 3.0 with Saxon
PE 9.8.0.8 in Oxygen 20.0. The production version is being tested with Saxon
PE 9.8.0.11J.
The workflow is to pre-process and simplify the source XML into a flatter
and more consistent intermediate format. A second transform then uses the
input from a mapping file to generate an XSLT file that is subsequently used
to transform the intermediate output into the required final output. 

I'm satisfied with the way almost everything works so far. However creating
the stylesheet for generating xsl is rather more complex than expected. I
don't know if there is a normal way to do this, but I manually created a
sample XSL file that performed a typical transformation that was to be done
by the generated version. I then set-about creating that dynamically via a
transform, of course using namespace-alias to generate all of the required
templates, functions, variables and so-on. So here's where I'm getting lost.
How can I generate an attribute value template without the {} becoming
active and forcing the XPath to be evaluated before it's ready? In some
cases I've created a function that wraps the target XPath in curly brackets
but for some cases that seems no to work. Generating element names this was
always seems to fail.

This is the typical output that I need from the generated stylesheet.
(Nothing special about my function, it just assembles the element name the
way I need depending on three arguments.)
<xsl:element name="{itpx:getDoctype(@style, $mapToDoctype, 0)}">...
In the stylesheet that generates the xsl would there be any reason to give
the itpx namespace an alias too?

Perhaps I'm just over-thinking it?
Thanks any guidance.
Ian

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