I am trying to programmtically insert an appendTo() method with jquery. I have a formatting stylesheet which formats an xml sheet, but I do it in a third HTML document using jquery and javascript. My original xml is in this format:

```
<guitars>
    <guitar>
        <model>AStrat</model>
        <year>1978</year>
        <name>Strat</name>
        <price>2500</price>
    </guitar>
</guitars>

```

and my stylesheet is like this:

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

    <xsl:output method="html" version="4.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <table id="guitarTable" border="1" width="200">
            <tr class="header">
                <th>Model</th>
                <th>Year</th>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Price</th>
            </tr>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="/guitars/guitar">
            </xsl:apply-templates>
        </table>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="guitar">
        <tr>
            <td> <xsl:value-of select="model" /> </td>
            <td> <xsl:value-of select="year" />  </td>
            <td> <xsl:value-of select="name"/> </td>
            <td> <xsl:value-of select="price" /> </td>
        </tr>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

```

And here is my javascript. `stylesheet` is the stylesheet above imported via ajax and I've checked works correctly.

```
var nodeToAppend = '<xsl:sort select="model" data-type="text"/>'
$(nodeToAppend).appendTo( $(stylesheet)
                              .find("xsl\\:apply-templates, apply-templates")
                              .first() );

```

But this doesn't seem to want to take. Later on, I apply the XSL to the XML via an XSLT processor. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Basically I want this line:

```
<xsl:apply-templates select="/guitars/guitar">
                </xsl:apply-templates>

```

to become:

```
<xsl:apply-templates select="/guitars/guitar">
          <xsl:sort select="model" data-type="text"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>

```

Thanks!