XSLT document function - bug?

I have an XSLT stylesheet which loads several XML documents, by using the XSLT document() function.
The XSLT document() function works fine using Saxon processor and Firefox. Also it works fine in Safari 3 when the XSLT stylesheet is processed as a stylesheet referenced from an XML-file.
But, when processing the XSLT stylesheet from Javascript, in Safari 3, using xsltProcessor.transformToDocument() the document() function does not load the files. It can be added, that I am running everything from the local harddrive.
Anyone has similar experience or some workaround?
There is a similar post http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1559485&tstart=1 about Safari-Windows, but no resolution to the problem.
Message was edited by: Tomas Jonsson
Message was edited by: Tomas Jonsson

I have now made an example to demonstrate this bug. Firefox 3 will do the right thing, Safari 3 and 4 both have the same problem.
http://www.tomasjonsson.eu/docbugtest/docbugtest.html

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