> But there's one great possibility: I propose the fantastic 
> way of trial and
> error!
I had this frustrating feeling that I had already tried everything I could
think of, but you induced me to try a little more still, and I now have a
working stylesheet! 

> 3) you may modify the second argument

Modifying the second argument is what worked for me. Instead of having 
	<xsl:for-each select="document($path, .)">

I wrote 
	<xsl:for-each select="document($path, /)">

And modified my $path a very little. That solved it!

Thanks for the encouragement. 

Linda


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