Steve Tinney writes:
 > I'm not going to engage in gross generalizations about the necessity of
 > saxon:assign and the like, but I have yet to encounter a problem that I
 > couldn't solve without it, including writing an XSL word-counting
 > script.

You whet my appetite. I started writing one of these as well,  and I
was not 100% happy with the result (in fact, I used the node-set
extension). Want to show us your result?

Sebastian


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