"Vun Kannon, David" wrote:
> 
>         Very nice. Now what if the output stylesheet also has to process
> XSL, could you Ping-Pong back and forth between the xsl and xsl_ namespaces,

No. 

> or do you have to burn a namespace for every iteration? 

Yes.

> It made me wonder if a stylesheet that was applied to
> itself could serve as the host to a set of templates that matched and
> transformed each other until they became a network of reinforcing
> transformations, a metabolism.

No, for the reason you describe. After some finite number of iterations,
the stylesheet has no more XSL code left in it.

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