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> I think, as a user, I'd rather see a "lexical" XPath axis > (pair?), to let me > hop back & forth between the tree w/ the lexical constructs > and without. I > think this would be much easier to use, and its use could be better > encapsulated within a small number of templates. It's a nice idea in principle, but I have some difficulty seeing how to flesh out the detail. The two main lexical components, entity references and CDATA sections, occur in the middle of character data, so it's not obvious how you would represent them on a separate axis. You could represent them by new node types (e.g. a start-cdata node and an end-cdata node) on the child axis, which would not be selected by the node() nodetest but only by some new lex() nodetest. However, the overall effect would be much more pervasive to the XSLT specification, the data model, and implementations. I agree that it's in some ways cleaner than the "bolt-on" proposed by Appendix F, but because it's so pervasive, I think it would have a smaller chance of acceptance. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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