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> As things stand they will usually not be aligned, the > sequence resulting > from running "for" over an input sequence is the flattened > concatenation > of the sequences resulting from applying the body to each item of the > original sequence, so you have no indication of which result item > resulted from which input. If you need this (and I would have thought > that you normally would) then you have to ensure that the body of the > for constructs an element node around each result so that you get a > predicatble sequence back. But then you have a sequence of > nodes rather > than a sequence of whatever type you originally wanted.... > > I think that this is just going to lead to massive user confusion. > I'm puzzled why you should say that, because I've never seen anyone complain that when you do book/chapter/para you get back a "flat" list of <para> elements rather than a sequence of sequences of sequences. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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