> > The next problem to address is generating test results from
> > each test, producing a cumulative test result and count...
> > not something that XSLT is very good at with its lack of
> > side effects!
> >
> 
> Lack of XSLT side effects is only an issue if you want to do the 
reporting
> in a single XSLT step.

Xslt has side effects.
They are related to current date and time, to node constructors, and to 
generate-id() function.

All these, in fact, may complicate xslt unit tests, as they make output not 
stable.
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Vladimir Nesterovsky
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