Elizabeth writes:

>    Is this type of thing do-able in XSL or should I investigate
> handing nodes off to Java or something similar?

I could not come up with a method to accomplish this task in XSLT so I
did end up writing a Xalan-J extension class which worked. I wrote a
tutorial on this if anyone is interested:

   http://www.soggytrousers.net/tech/writing_a_xalan_j_extension/

Sincerely,
Elizabeth

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