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xsl1.0: xml node name based on value in other tag

Hello, in incoming xml I have total amount value; if value is gt 0; the document is invoice; if it is lt 0; it is credit invoice.

The outgoing xml needs different names on tags if invoice or credit note.

I tried like this; but get
"Expected white space"
when running in Stylus:

<xsl:variable name="MAINHEADER">
      <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="INVOIC/OrderHead/Ord_4182 < 0">
                  <xsl:value-of select="'<CreditNote xmlns=""urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CreditNote-2"" xmlns:cac=""urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"" xmlns:cbc=""urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2"" xmlns:ccts=""urn:un:unece:uncefact:documentation:2"" xmlns:ext=""urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonExtensionComponents-2"" xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"">'"/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                  <xsl:value-of select="'<inv:Invoice xmlns:inv=""urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:Invoice-2"" xmlns:ext=""urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonExtensionComponents-2"" xmlns:cbc=""urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2"" xmlns:cac=""urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"" xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"">'"/>
            </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
      </xsl:variable>

Error message says whitespace should be here (marked bold):
<xsl:value-of select="'<CreditNote

What am I missing?

Gertone (Geert Bormans)

If you want the element generated, you don't need to use value-of (because that would only create a textnode incidentaly starting with "<")
You need to put down the <inv:Invoice in literal nodes

It is pretty hard to do so in a variable
but you can put the elemant name in a variable and use xsl:element

Gertone (Geert Bormans)

Can you put an example XML and your full XSLT?
Then I could show you how you can do this

Put the choose on the top level (don't use a variable) and do an apply-templates for the other nodes from within the choose

Here is how I would get started with this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

<xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="INVOIC/OrderHead/Ord_4182 &lt; 0">
                  <CreditNote xmlns="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CreditNote-2" xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2" xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2" xmlns:ccts="urn:un:unece:uncefact:documentation:2" xmlns:ext="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonExtensionComponents-2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
                  <xsl:apply-templates/>
                  </CreditNote>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                  <inv:Invoice xmlns:inv="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:Invoice-2" xmlns:ext="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonExtensionComponents-2" xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2" xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
                    <xsl:apply-templates/>
                </inv:Invoice>
            </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
      </xsl:variable>
</xsl:template>

<!-- templates for child elements go here -->

</xsl:stylesheet>

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Thanks, here are my files :)
ehf.xsl
incoming.xml

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