Florent Georges wrote:
> Deborah Pickett wrote:
>>> XSLT will only handle input that is well-formed XML
>>> conforming to the Namespaces recommendation.
>> I'm curious: why?
> [...] Because the input to the transform is an abstract
> tree represented as an XDM instance.

I should learn to phrase my questions more clearly.  Three answers,
three different takes on what I was asking. :)  Florent, I think that
your answer best answers the question I thought I was asking.

Thanks everyone.