> 
> Is there any way to build a temporary tree fragment and 
> access its nodes without using processor-specific 
> functionality or an extension library? (in testing I've build 
> a tree fragment as the content of a variable, and used 
> 'msxsl:node-set($variable)/XPath-expression' to access the nodes)
> 
Not in XSLT 1.0, no.

Michael Kay
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