Cheers,
Wendell

At 04:24 PM 4/23/2002, you wrote:

    <xsl:variable name="nodetree">
      <xsl:for-each select="$full_path[contains($dbs_searched,@db)]">
<!-- $dbs_searched variable is passed from a different stylesheet -->
        <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:variable>

This isn't a solution to your problem (still thinking about it though) but it might help your readability/efficiency. I read on topxml.com the following about copy-of:
Copies a full tree including attributes to the destination
document. If multiple nodes are matched by the select attribute,
they are all copied.

  This would change the above variable declaration to the following:
<xsl:variable name="nodetree">
  <xsl:copy-of select="$full_path[contains($dbs_searched,@db)]"/>
</xsl:variable>

In the past, I've created a second temporary variable to hold the nodeset'ed version. You might try that as well.

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