> But anyway, I understand that there are other reasons that 
> user-defined functions in XSLT 2.0 can't use context 
> information (not that I can remember what they are right now...).

It was mainly done for optimization reasons. It's much easier to
optimize a function call if you know exactly what context information it
depends on.

Michael Kay
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