> Hmmm... In case I'm instantiating matching templates to 
> several nodes in parallel, wouldn't that make it possible 
> that I'd end up with two current nodes existing at the same 
> time?  Probably having more than one current node isn't in 
> fact as horrible as it sounds?

Happens all the time. Your run-time environment is full of Closures -
half-evaluated expressions, each holding a copy of its dynamic context,
including its very own context node.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/