> Is this may be a limitation of xalan or is this a absolute standard
> functionality?

 xalan does support document() so something else must be wrong.
Are you sure your server serves a well formed XML document of the
correct mime type given that request. If it is a xalan specific problem,
there are some xalan lists rather than this general xsl list thatyou
could try.

David


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