David Carlisle said:
> invokes it is called with with-param
> something like
>   <xsl:with-param name="render2web" select="$render2web""/>
> is the usual idiom.
> 

Yes of course that is the way to do it - I used the version below
just for debugging and to remove a further contingency by passing a static
string to the param rather than the var $render2web viz.

<xsl:with-param name="render2web" select="yes"/>

Either way - its still not giving me any joy, alas.

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Eric Smith

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