XSLT makes no promises about extension evaluation beyond the obvious one that it function A depends on data returned by function B, B will have been run (at least once) first.
I don't think Xalan officially makes any promises beyond that. And I don't think we want to do so, since it would have implications for our attempts to put more serious optimization into the compilation process. I don't think we're optimizing that far in the current code. But I think we want to... ______________________________________ "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish (http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)