It seems that it is not layout box that needs to be positioned, but content inside layout box, whatever that is (depending on design).
In that case, dynamic (and absolute) positioning can be done by setting common positioning style attributes to XPath expression as in later example (by concatenation of unit /strings/p/concat(@lp,'px')
as that's what program expects). And it is important to set "position" style attribute to "absolute" (which may seem like overkill demand as I initially already set that my design is in "absolute positioning mode")
After being able to see expected result, I was soon disappointed that this kind of style positioning is valid only for HTML output. Other output formats does not respect it, and I would be happy to be proven wrong.
In reality, often HTML is not desired output, but some more flexible format. And in such situations I suggest this excellent tool: XHTML2RTF, which transforms XHTML to RTF in regards to positioning elements in XHTML file. Further RTF can be converted to any common format
As conclusion, for my initial problem, using StyleVision was wrong approach. It complicated things while result was limited. For absolute positioning output from XML source I would suggest either scripting language or simple XSLT if possible, and XHTML2RTF tool afterwards