RE: Referring to stylesheet itself, possible in XSLT 1

> but it is not possible [in 2.0] to use document('') (with empty
> string) to refer to the current xslt file, it will throw an 
> error. 

Don't know where you got that idea. So long as the base URI of the
stylesheet module is known, and is accessible in the run-time environment,
document('') should retrieve it.

You can also find out the base URI of the stylesheet module more directly
using the static-base-uri() function.

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