> After some pretty exhaustive searching on the web, I have decided to 
> join the list. I have noticed in the archives that more than 
> one person 
> has had the same issue as I have...how to create an XPath expression 
> dynamically (from a variable, etc). The answer to these 
> questions was to 
> use any of the available *:evaluate functions. I would like to try to 
> avoid that, since it increases the parse time so much....and 
> that is not 
> acceptable.
> 
> My question is if there is any other way to accomplish this, 
> for example using XSLT2.0. 

Sorry, but this is one feature that we decided not to put in XSLT 2.0. The
only choices are really:

(a) using an xx:evaluate() extension function
(b) modifying the stylesheet before you execute it

I'm not sure why you think there is a performance problem with the extension
function approach?

Michael Kay