David Carlisle wrote:

  Hi,

> Not "many", all uses of for-each can be
equivalently handled by
> apply-templates.

  For nodes, not for atomic items,
of course.

> <xsl:template match="/|node()" mode="unique-id">

  I guess you
meant match="@*|node()" ;-)

  Regards,

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