Re: formatting xml output: inserting newlines between

> do you feel that vendors of 2.0 will still support 
> node-set() usage? 

I doubt it but if you wanted to have a 2.0 stylesheet that still sead
select="xx:node-set($x)"
rather than 
select="$x"
then you could do so and use the xslt 2 facilities for function
definition to define xx:node-set as a no-op function.


> also, leaving aside compatibility issues, what do you think about 
> constructing a tree within one xslt vs. having a 2-step transform?

If it's the whole document then it doesn't make a lot of difference, two
steps is probably a bit kinder on the system as it can junk the initial
input tree from memory  after the first step, but it is _very_
convenient to process small chunks of document into a variable and then
process them with a second pass in the same stylesheet, eg one pass to
normalise several input forms, another to sort and number the result,
...

David


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