The differences were due to two factors:

1.) generate-id() does give different output over the two runs.

2.) There was a bug in Visual XSLT, which has been corrected for
the next release, which caused the output of runs outside the
debugger to be written out in a UCS-2 encoding.  This is why
the files were so vastly different.

I'm posting to the list because I suspect others here will be
interested in bug http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19393

Eric, you did right not to post your files to the list.  People
get enough html/xml email as it is these days.  The best thing
to do is to describe a general problem, and ask if anyone's
interested in seeing sample data to repro a problem.  If it's a
problem in Visual XSLT, that main person will be me, or another
developer here at ActiveState.  If it's a general XSLT problem, you
might get a taker here, or receive a friendly redirect to
http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
which is much better suited at handling questions on the
language itself.

- Eric

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:49:58PM -0000, Eric Mamet wrote:
>  OK, here are the files.
>  
>  I am not too sure whether I am supposed to do that in a mailing list...
>  I'm sure you'll tell me if I am wrong!
>  On the other hand, the files are quite small.
>  
>  To produce the Output file Output_Msxsl, I used the following command
>  msxsl testxml.xml testeric.xsl -o Output_Msxsl.html
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