Sukuma asks:
  could anyone of the Xalan users drop a few lines of code or give me a
  hint how to further process result tree fragments with Xalan?
  I'm looking for an equivalent method to xt:node-set()?

This function is begging to be written.  Currently Xalan implements section
11.1 of the spec and that's all.  If you're interested, please contribute.
I
know several people have been asking about it.

Paul


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