>>>>> "Dave" == Pawson, David <David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Dave>   document() for plain text files?

Of course, this is possible using a cutsom URI resolver, which builds
the XML from the text file, before presenting it to XSLT, and this is
a possible route for XSLT 1.0 users, but it is not creating XML from
text using XSL, which is the subject line.
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire