Michael Kay wrote:

> <xsl:variable name="styles" as="element(style)">
>   <style name="BLD" code="bold"/>
>   <style name="ITA" code="italic"/>
> </xsl:variable>

  Of course, if you want to test this, change its type to
element(style)+ ;-)

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Florent Georges
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