Document() XPath function question

I've seen this function used in Flight Finder demo to reference external XML document - is it in W3C standard draft/recommendation or it's an Oracle proprietary extension? Can I rely on this function or it's subject to change/evaporate any time? At least current (May, 2000) Microsoft XML Parser doesn't support it nor there are any trails of it in their documentation...

Please see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-document
It's part of the XSLT 1.0 Recommendation.
The MSXSL3 release out today (their "July Beta") supports it now.

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