I changed it back to the old way (if it ain't broke, don't fix it!)
this is not unreasonable
Thanks for all your help. I hope know one feels like I wasted their time.
not at all, just to round the thread off for the sake of the archives,
here's the original key method, tested a bit:
nadia.xml
<section>
<heading>Head</heading>
<para>Some Text</para>
<?xm-insertion_mark_start author="N. Swaby"
time="20041103T124303-0500"?>
<list>
<list.item>
<para>More Test</para>
</list.item>
</list>
<?xm-insertion_mark_end ?>
<figure>
<graphic file="drm044-f2.jpg" width="606" height="276"/>
<figtitle>Fig</figtitle>
</figure>
<table><!-- table stuff--></table>
<table><!-- table stuff--></table>
<table><!-- table stuff--></table>
</section>
nadia.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:key
name="pi"
match="node()"
use="generate-id(preceding-sibling::processing-instruction()[starts-with(name(),'xm-insertion_mark_')][1])"/>
<xsl:template match="section">
<div>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template
match="section[processing-instruction('xm-insertion_mark_start')]">
<div>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="processing-instruction('xm-insertion_mark_start')[1]/preceding-sibling::node()"/>
<xsl:for-each select="processing-instruction('xm-insertion_mark_start')">
<div class="revcontrol">
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('pi',generate-id())"/>
</div>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="processing-instruction('xm-insertion_mark_end')[last()]/following-sibling::node()"/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="section/heading">
<h2>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</h2>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="list">
<ol>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</ol>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="list.item">
<li>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</li>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="para">
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="figure|table">
<p> a converted <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>.</p>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
$ saxon nadia.xml nadia.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<div>
<h2>Head</h2>
<p>Some Text</p>
<div class="revcontrol">
<ol>
<li>
<p>More Test</p>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
<p> a converted figure.</p>
<p> a converted table.</p>
<p> a converted table.</p>
<p> a converted table.</p>
</div>
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