While bugzilla is down and I'm still hanging around... "It is an error for the value of the match attribute to contain a VariableReference."[1] Xalan 2.1.0 doesn't necessarily throw an error, for example, when the variable reference is of a global parameter. It proceeds happily along. (I discovered this when I tried executing my erroneous stylesheet using SAXON, which did throw an error). Evan Lenz XYZFind Corp. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#section-Defining-Template-Rules (first paragraph)
