>  (@* treat as node())/*
> 
>   This leads into a warning with Saxon telling that "The child axis
> starting at an attribute node will never select anything." 

sounds familiar:-)

the (@*,$foo)/* method works to suppress that, if needed, where $foo is
a permanently empty global param.

David

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