Not only what Ken says, but
At 02:03 PM 4/9/2004, he wrote:
As to why I want to do this particularly horrible thing, put it down to
someone else's questionable design decisions. If the nodes that I want to
'surround' were in the XML rather than the XSL, this would be trivial.
But XSL *is* XML so you can use the document() function to get at the
nodes of your stylesheet.
Nor is it necessarily so horrible. It's really a primary use case for
document() if you allow that querying the stylesheet itself isn't really so
different from querying a third file of some sort (and configuring stuff in
third files is quite normal).
Note that this is all to change in XSLT 2.0. There you will be able
transparently to process your own results, and all kinds of mayhem will be
possible.
Cheers,
Wendell
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