Jon Smirl
> My stylesheets are data driven. I use xsl:include to bring in a 
> general set
> of XML transforms and then I use the static data in the main sheet to
> control the behavior of the included generalized XSL. I'd rather have the
> static XML in the stylesheet because this is where it 
> conceptually belongs.
> It not really 'data' it's more like a higher level stylesheet 
> language than
> XSL.

a point worth mentioning before you rewrite your XSLT library :-)

<xsl:variable name="whatever" select="document('data.xml')" />

allows $whatever to be used as a Node-Set

Jonathan Borden


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