and the first rule of mailing lists and newsgroups is....

.... never believe anyone who posts untested solutions late at night,
they always retract in the morning.

I was of course entirely wrong in my assertion that
exclude-result-prefixes affects nodes copy-of'ed from the source tree.

I was going to send a `corrected' reply butI see Ken H has already
sent a clarification.

Sorry about that!

David


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