Thanks, David.  I've been testing all day, and have upgraded from Opera
9.64 to 10.10, which works with all sorts of XSLT code I couldn't make
work in 9.64.  Curiously, there is nothing at all in the documentation
or changelogs about XSLT, aside from adding document() in 9.5:

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/

Rule of Thumb:  Don't expect XSLT to work like you'd expect it to work,
if at all, in Opera < 10.  Which is fine by me, I've never worried
about being backwards-compatible with older versions of Opera.  They've
fixed the latest versions' XSLT considerably, it would appear.

It would still be nice to have a cross-browser way to get my demo
working when called via Javascript.  This method would be required in
many cases, for back-compat with Opera < 10 (for those who do care).  I
used the Sarissa library for my demo, which claims support for WebKit,
but I'm not sure it does.

-Eric

David Carlisle wrote:
>
> On 21/02/2010 12:03, Eric J. Bowman wrote:
> 
> > Here's what got me to cussing, whittled down quite a bit.  Take a
> > look at line 84 of the simplified XSLT linked here (works in all
> > browsers but Opera):
> >
> > http://charger.bisonsystems.net/xmltest/problem.xht
> >
> 
> you don't say what exactly doesn't work but as far as I can see that 
> looks the same in firefox 3.6 and opera 10.10.
> 
> David