Re: $variable//childNode

> Has this functionality (accessing children of variable select=""'s as
> nodes) been added in 2.0?

Not really, since it is present in 1.0. If you have a variable defined
as a node set then you can go $variable//childNode to select descendant
nodes. A variable will be defined to have a node set value if it is
defined with a select expression rather than using the content of 
xsl:variable, or especially useful for document nodes, if it is an
external parameter and the calling method supplies a node as the value f
that parameter.

What is different in XSLT2 is not the fact that you can use
$variable//foo but that it's easier to generate a node set of nodes that
have been constructed, rather than copied from the source.
(Except you are not allowed to call them node sets any more, they are
sequences in XPath2)

David

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