> Not a straw man at all. Look at stylesheets like Norm Walsh's docbook
> stylesheets or Sebastian's TEI ones that try to be portable. They have
> _lots_ of this kind of rubbish or equally horrible multiple nested
> xsl:fallbacks for each of the known processors.

Oh boy.  I'm not very familiar with either (we use our own lightweight docbook 
stylesheet with nary an extension function).

I guess some good comes of it:  I have a handy place to start in finding 
common extension functions to catalog.


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