Re: XSLT and XML in the same document

if you are calling the stylesheet from <?xml-stylesheet it seems that
the pain can't be avoided (the trick of using msxsl:script to define
exslt:node-set doesn't seem to work unfortunately, and the trick of
using exslt:function to define msxsl;node-set would only work if the
other browsers implemented  exslt:function)

However if you are calling the transform from the javascript API, one
alternative to complicating the xslt with lots of nested
function-available tests is simply to modify the source (Or DOM) of the
stylesheet to use the MS namespace rather than the EXSLT one before
compiling the stylesheet.

Of course even more pain would go away if they were to implement xslt2
as you wouldn't need node-set() at all!