Oliver Becker has a loop implementation that "compiles" into straight XSLT.

You can use it as is, or look at what gets generated and figure out how it
actually works :)

http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~obecker/XSLT/loop-compiler/

- Eugene

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