> Ah. I wouldn't have guessed:-) The spec doesn't distinguish between
> these cases, they are both an integral part of the definition 
> of import
> precedence.

It does distinguish between them when it comes to apply-imports, however.
xsl:apply-imports, uniquely, only considers descendants in the import tree;
it doesn't look at everything with lower precedence.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/