What I don't know how to do is randomly select elements from the elements
available in the appropriate node set.
...
I don't want _all_ the possible text element patterns; I just want one.  But I
certainly don't always want to get the first one, either.
...
Anyone got suggestions as to how one picks a random node out of a node
sequence?

   http://www.exslt.org/random/functions/random-sequence/index.html
   http://www.exslt.org/random/

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