> 
> I just got confused by the "initially" in
> 
>    "Within the body of a stylesheet function, the focus is initially
>    undefined"
> 
> which seemed to imply the possibility of setting the focus/context, 
> possibly to that of the function call.
> 

Yes, I don't like the "initially" - I've generally tried to avoid words
in the spec that have a temporal connotation.

What it means is that you are allowed to write things like

<xsl:function...
<xsl:variable...
   <xsl:for-each select="$param">

and inside the for-each (or inside a predicate in a filter expression)
the context item is well defined.

Michael Kay
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