> Is it possible to generate as part of an output xml file
> only those gloss entries which are contained in the report


<xsl:template match="glossary">
<xsl:for-each select="entry[term=//acronym]">

possibly with a normalize-space or two thrown in, so that 
  <acronym> RNIN </acronym> and   <acronym>RNIN</acronym>
are the same, and possibly instead using keys so that
the rather expensive // operation isn't done afresh for each entry

David


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