Mike,
The exslt common:node-set() function appears to have changed at some
stage and now specifies that with a string argument, the result
should be a text node. Saxon has never implemented this version of
the EXSLT specification (and I don't recall seeing any discussion of
the change - change control is not one of EXSLT's strong points).
We discussed it in April 2001:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/639319
Cheers,
Jeni
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