> A lot has already been said and many suggestions have already 
> been made in this thread to speed up the processing of your 
> stylesheet, but since your stylesheet is rather 
> straightforward I doubt if any of the suggestions really 
> speed up the processing.

I agree, these are all things that might give you 1% improvement. The only
other thing I can suggest is looking at the format-number() calls. I've
known that be really slow on some implementations. Try taking it out and
seeing if it makes any difference.

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