> Okay given that XSL-T 2.0 is now making good headway; has 
> anyone given thought of doing the old Transquery stuff in XSL-T 2.0?

I've heard rumours of one company that's implementing XSLT 2.0 by
translating it into XQuery; that approach would in principle enable you to
run XSLT 2.0 directly against an XML database.

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