RE: The collection() function

> Does it mean that Altova, Microsoft, etc. are more than 
> welcome to implement it in exactly the same way as in Saxon?
> 
> http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/sourcedocs/collections.html

Yes of course. There's a long (though sadly unwritten) history of XSLT 1.0
processors copying each other's extensions and interpretations of the spec -
the node-set() function is a prime example - and I would expect the same to
happen for 2.0.

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