Yes, I think Dr. Kay mentioned this sometimes ago on his blog as a
possibleperformance improvement.

> Is this a bug? Or just the ups and downs of life?
the latter

http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/changes/intro88/xslt88.html

David

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Dimitre Novatchev
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