>I'm just questioning the usefulness of this "feature". It rarely does any harm. It avoids deliberately breaking a math major's expectations.
If you really care, check whether the formal XSLT grammar requires it. (I presume it does, since Scott's generating the parser code from the grammar.) If it does, you could take it up with the XSLT working group... but frankly, I wouldn't waste their time with it. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
