Peter:
> Just at a conceptual level, I'm interested to know what influenced you
> towards this perception...books, articles, discussions, etc?

Actually, it is my experience with javascript and php and the fact
that xml is supposed to be "supported" in Browsers for quite some
years. Reading a parameter is quite simple using php or javascript.
Everybody is talking about the great possibilities with xml and that
xml is the future yada yada. I do have some experience with xsl and so
I really thought that reading a parameter would be the easiest part of
it.

Then I read about the param and that it is supposed to work for this
but just not in web-browsers. After all those years. Why?

Peter:
> Do it server side. Browsers simply don't provide this level of XML
> support yet (after 10 years they *still* don't grok it...<sigh/>)

I don't have any experience with that. What are the requirements for
that. I can't change any thing at the server. PHP 4.4.4 is installed.

Bj=F6rn:
> This would depend on the query string, not how or by whom the document
> is being accessed. The XSLT would then retrieve the parameter and act
> on it accordingly.

I am now thinking about using php to generate the xml and adding the
parameter to the xml-data so the xsl can get it from there.