Jeni Tennison writes:

 > You can avoid xsl:document being instantiated by testing the version
 > of XSLT supported by the processor:
 > 
...

 > I hope that helps,

it does. thats much clearer than my fumbling around!

the reason I got confused early on was (I now realize) because XT did
not conform to the spec, and I had naively thought it would in this
respect.

sebastian


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