& XSLT 
>  am I losing anything by omitting the use of 
>  xsl:apply-imports altogether?

probably not. apply-inports is in xslt1 of course so survives to xslt2,
next-match is a new 2.0 feature which is a bit simpler to understand and
more general, so mostly I think people will use that rather than
apply-imports except when updating xslt1 stylesheets.

David


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