I  wrote
>     <xsl:function name="ns:func">
>       <xsl:param name="arg" as="node()"/>
>       <xsl:choose>
>        <xsl:when test="$arg instance of xs:integer">

oops change node() to item() of course (that being the point of the
exercise:-)

David

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