Re: applying templates to all but ...

> So why did it work correctly?  Because the value was specified and it 
> didn't need to default?

yes, if you'd used the XSLT2 as= attribute in a few more places to
specify expected types of things you would have got a compile-time error
before your stylesheet ran that the parameter should be a string and it
had been set to a node set. Whether or not you think such type checking
is a good thing is a kind or religious issue that I don't want to go
near:-)

> I'm a little worried about performance; a small document is now giving 
> me an execution time of 3796 milliseconds.  Perhaps this trick can 
> shave off some of that in a few places.

or 4 seconds in English. When I were a lad, it used to take 15 minutes
per page to process a document through TeX, but we were happy....

David

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