>>>From what I can understand you cannot create a 
>>>node-set in java and send that as a parameter to the transformation
>>>
>>
>>Not true,  I posted code to do this for Xalan just the other week...
>>
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>Cool, I missed that. I don't suppose there is a way to do something like 
>this (not using DOM) using Saxon and Aelfred?
>
Afraid I can't tell you the answer to that one.  There was some follow up
discussion on how to not make it Xalan specific and I'm pretty sure Saxon
will have a way to handle it.  Don't know anything about Aelfred however...

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