>    <xsl:apply-template select="document(@url)"/>
> 
> I wish to inspect that node set, to see if the top
> level element has name "a". How can this be done?

<xsl:if test="document(@url)/a">

or test="name(document(@url)/*) = 'a'"

or test="document(@url)/*[self::a]"

Regards,

Joerg


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