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 * Pre-process or dynamically create the XSLT to include complete XPath statements. When the XSLT is processed, the XPath statements are static but any two invocations are likely to have very different statements. It doesn't tie you to a language if you perform the preprocessing with XSL. I worked in a team that developed an abstract formalism to define a conversion. This XML formalism was converted to XSL using XSL and appeared very powerfull in the end, as multiple stylesheets for slightly different tasks could be generated from it. :-) On one hand you find that the formalism is less powerfull as you want to hide XSL niche for the writer of the definition file. But it gives the opportunity to introduce shorthands for complex XSL tasks. I recently gave a solution for wrapping random sequences of particular elements in other elements that leans on the mode attribute quite heavily, which is difficult to maintain. In the formalism, it was just one command with which you merely say: 'I want to group (or wrap) sequences of nodes that match the following expression within the context of this or that.' Worked pretty much like a charm... Grtz, Geert 
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