Re: result-document, QNames, AVT's, format-attribute a

however
the spec clearly shows this as an AVT so I think it's supposed to work.

It does work when I extend the AVT to contain a function:
"{string('test')}" works, whereas
"{'test'}" does not.
Doesn't that struck you as odd?

well use-character-maps is again a reference to a stylesheet construct

There's no way to do that without using an extension function.
(actually there is, you could specify that the file is in some
custom-encoding, but then you'd have to supply the encoding handler to

Come to think of it: I actually thought of that ;-)
But it looked a bit awkward to me...

andxslt regexp could have been
used to clean out control characters,

but this was explictly raised and
they decided not to do it, you can't have everything:-)