> 
> > First question: It seems odd to me that the newline 
> character would be 
> > considered significant and not get stripped
> 
> newlines that are followed by non-white space characters are 
> _never_ considered insignificatnt by XML or stripped by XSLT.
> 

But they may be ignored when sorting - the spec leaves detailed
decisions on how strings are sorted to the implementation.

Michael Kay
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