diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a87e88b..a13fc4c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 INPUTS = index.xml footer.xml
 SUBDIRS = about events docs office news users clubs media
 
-# the following two rules are there so cow gets built first.
-cow-first: noroot events.ics recurse-cow books.xml members.xml menu.xml all
+first: noroot events.ics books.xml members.xml menu.xml all
 	find ! -regex '.*/\..*' -type f ! -perm -0664 -print0 | xargs -r0 chmod u=rwX,g=rwX,o=rX || true
 	find ! -regex '.*/\..*' -type d ! -perm 2775 -print0 | xargs -r0 chmod 2775 || true
 	find ! -regex '.*/\..*' -type d ! -group www -print0 | xargs -r0 chgrp www || true
@@ -10,9 +9,6 @@ cow-first: noroot events.ics recurse-cow books.xml members.xml menu.xml all
 noroot:
 	if test $$UID = 0; then echo "don't build as root!"; exit 1; fi
 
-recurse-cow:
-	cd cow && $(MAKE) && cd ..
-
 members.xml:
 	echo '<?xml version='\''1.0'\''?>' > $@
 	echo '<memberlist>' >> $@
diff --git a/cow/.gitignore b/cow/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 50fd5e2..0000000
--- a/cow/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-*.o
-/i686
-/x86_64
-/alpha
diff --git a/cow/Makefile b/cow/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 8db51e4..0000000
--- a/cow/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-ARCH=$(shell uname -m)
-MAIN = $(ARCH)/cow
-CFLAGS = -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DDEBUG -pedantic -ansi -Wall
-LDFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) -lxml2 -lxslt
-SOURCES = $(wildcard *.c)
-OBJECTS = $(addprefix $(ARCH)/,$(SOURCES:.c=.o))
-
-all: $(MAIN)
-
-$(ARCH):
-	mkdir -p $(ARCH)
-
-$(MAIN): $(OBJECTS)
-	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJECTS)
-
-$(ARCH)/%.o: %.c $(ARCH)
-	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $<
diff --git a/cow/README b/cow/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ccc4b7..0000000
--- a/cow/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-requires libxslt to build
diff --git a/cow/cow b/cow/cow
deleted file mode 100755
index 2cfccc3..0000000
--- a/cow/cow
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-exec "$(dirname $0)/$(uname -m)/$(basename $0)" "$@"
diff --git a/cow/debug.h b/cow/debug.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 39d239b..0000000
--- a/cow/debug.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#ifndef CSC_COW_DEBUG_H
-#define CSC_COW_DEBUG_H
-
-#include <stdio.h>
-
-#ifdef DEBUG
-#define DEBUG_PRINT(x) do { fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d (%s): %s\n", __FILE__, \
-                                    __LINE__, __FUNCTION__, x); } while (0)
-#else
-#define DEBUG_PRINT(x) do { } while (0)
-#endif
-
-#endif
diff --git a/cow/functions.c b/cow/functions.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b11b81..0000000
--- a/cow/functions.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-#include "debug.h"
-#include <libxslt/extensions.h>
-#include <libxml/xpath.h>
-#include <libxml/xpathInternals.h>
-
-#define COW_URI ((const xmlChar *)"http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow")
-
-/* return the term ({Winter,Summer,Fall} YYYY) for a date in
- * YYYY-MM-DD format.
- */
-void extension_cow_term(xmlXPathParserContextPtr ctxt,
-                           int nargs)
-{
-  xmlChar *str, *ret;
-  int month;
-  
-  if (nargs != 1) {
-    xmlXPathSetArityError(ctxt);
-  }
-  str = xmlXPathPopString(ctxt);
-
-  month = (str[5] - '0')*10 + (str[6] - '0');
-
-  ret = xmlUTF8Strndup((const xmlChar*)(month < 9 ? (month < 5 ? "Winter " : "Spring ") : "Fall "), 7);
-  ret = xmlStrcat(ret, xmlUTF8Strsub(str, 0, 4));
-  
-  xmlXPathReturnString(ctxt, ret);
-  xmlFree(str);
-}
-
-void *extension_init_func(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt,
-                          const xmlChar *URI)
-{
-  return 0;
-}
-
-void extension_shutdown_func(xsltTransformContextPtr ctxt,
-                                    const xmlChar *URI,
-                                    void *data)
-{
-}
-
-void init_extensions()
-{
-  xsltRegisterExtModule(COW_URI,
-                        extension_init_func, extension_shutdown_func);
-  xsltRegisterExtModuleFunction((const xmlChar*)"term", COW_URI,
-                          extension_cow_term);
-}
diff --git a/cow/main.c b/cow/main.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 077ffb2..0000000
--- a/cow/main.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <libxml/xmlmemory.h>
-#include <libxml/debugXML.h>
-#include <libxml/HTMLtree.h>
-#include <libxml/xmlIO.h>
-#include <libxml/DOCBparser.h>
-#include <libxml/xinclude.h>
-#include <libxml/catalog.h>
-#include <libxslt/xslt.h>
-#include <libxslt/xsltInternals.h>
-#include <libxslt/transform.h>
-#include <libxslt/xsltutils.h>
-#include <libxslt/extensions.h>
-#include "debug.h"
-
-extern int xmlLoadExtDtdDefaultValue;
-
-void init_extensions();
-
-/* TODO: check for parse errors */
-static int error = 0;
-
-/* output usage message. progname is the name of the executable. */
-static void usage(const char* progname)
-{
-  printf("Usage: %s [options] stylesheet input output\n", progname);
-  printf("      --param name value : pass a parameter to the stylesheet\n");
-}
-
-int main(int argc, char** argv)
-{
-  int argNum;
-  const char **params = 0;
-  int maxparams = 0;
-  int nbparams = 0;
-  xsltStylesheetPtr cur = NULL;
-  xmlDocPtr doc, res;
-  FILE *out;
-  
-  maxparams = 16;
-  params = (const char**)malloc(sizeof(char*) * maxparams * 2);
-  
-  if (argc <= 1) {
-    usage(argv[0]);
-    return 1;
-  }
-
-  for (argNum = 1; argNum < argc; argNum++) {
-    if (argv[argNum][0] != '-')
-      break;
-    if ((!strcmp(argv[argNum], "-param")) ||
-        (!strcmp(argv[argNum], "--param"))) {
-      argNum++;
-      params[nbparams++] = argv[argNum++];
-      params[nbparams++] = argv[argNum];
-      if (nbparams >= maxparams * 2) {
-        maxparams *= 2;
-        params = realloc(params, sizeof(char*) * maxparams * 2);
-      }
-    }  else {
-      fprintf(stderr, "Unknown option %s\n", argv[argNum]);
-      usage(argv[0]);
-      return 1;
-    }
-  }
-  if ((argc - argNum) != 3) {
-    usage(argv[0]);
-    return 1;
-  }
-
-  params[nbparams] = NULL;
-  xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault(1);
-  xmlLoadExtDtdDefaultValue = XML_DETECT_IDS | XML_COMPLETE_ATTRS;
-
-  init_extensions();
-  
-  cur = xsltParseStylesheetFile((const xmlChar *)argv[argNum]);
-  argNum++;
-  doc = xmlParseFile(argv[argNum]);
-  argNum++;
-  if(!doc)
-    return 1;
-  res = xsltApplyStylesheet(cur, doc, params);
-  if(!res || error)
-    return 1;
-  out = fopen(argv[argNum], "w");
-  if(!out)
-    return 1;
-  xsltSaveResultToFile(out, res, cur);
-  
-  fclose(out);
-  xsltFreeStylesheet(cur);
-  xmlFreeDoc(res);
-  xmlFreeDoc(doc);
-  
-  xsltCleanupGlobals();
-  xmlCleanupParser();
-  return 0;
-}
diff --git a/cscweb.xsl b/cscweb.xsl
index 6a9abcb..5a9ddbe 100644
--- a/cscweb.xsl
+++ b/cscweb.xsl
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow" 
-    extension-element-prefixes="csc">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
+
+<xsl:param name="g_date" required="yes" />
+<xsl:param name="g_time" required="yes" />
+<xsl:param name="g_pwd" required="yes" />
+<xsl:param name="g_root" required="yes" />
 
 <!--
 
@@ -25,6 +31,7 @@
 <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" />
 
 <!-- include additional style sheets -->
+<xsl:include href="./xsl/functions.xsl" />
 <xsl:include href="./xsl/common.xsl" />
 <xsl:include href="./xsl/directory.xsl" />
 <xsl:include href="./xsl/menu.xsl" />
diff --git a/default.mk.in b/default.mk.in
index 2fc755c..def8502 100644
--- a/default.mk.in
+++ b/default.mk.in
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
 
-#DEBUG = 1
 OUTPUTS=$(INPUTS:.xml=.html)
-XSLTARGS=--param date "'`date -I`'" --param time "'`date +%H:%M:%S`'" \
-	--param pwd "'`pwd`'" --param root "'$(ROOT)'"
-
-ifdef DEBUG
-  XSLTARGS += -v
-endif
+XSLTARGS=g_date=`date -I` g_time=`date +%H:%M:%S` \
+	g_pwd="$$(pwd)" g_root="$(ROOT)"
+CLASSPATH=/users/www/saxon8/saxon8.jar
 
 all: $(OUTPUTS)
 	@for i in $(SUBDIRS) ; do (cd $$i && ($(MAKE) || exit 1)  && cd ..) ; done
@@ -16,5 +12,5 @@ clean-recurse: clean
 clean:
 	rm -f *.html events.ics
 
-%.html: %.xml $(ROOT)/csc.dtd $(ROOT)/cscweb.xsl $(ROOT)/xsl/*.xsl $(ROOT)/events.xml $(ROOT)/news.xml $(ROOT)/menu.xml $(ROOT)/default.mk directory.xml $(ROOT)/cow/cow
-	$(ROOT)/cow/cow $(XSLTARGS) $(ROOT)/cscweb.xsl $< $@ || exit 1;
+%.html: %.xml $(ROOT)/csc.dtd $(ROOT)/cscweb.xsl $(ROOT)/xsl/*.xsl $(ROOT)/events.xml $(ROOT)/news.xml $(ROOT)/menu.xml $(ROOT)/default.mk directory.xml
+	java -classpath $(CLASSPATH) net.sf.saxon.Transform $< $(ROOT)/cscweb.xsl $(XSLTARGS) > $@ || exit 1;
diff --git a/xsl/books.xsl b/xsl/books.xsl
index 435043d..6d4ec81 100644
--- a/xsl/books.xsl
+++ b/xsl/books.xsl
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow" 
-    extension-element-prefixes="csc">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
 
 <xsl:template match="all-books">
   <p>The books we currently own include:</p>
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@
       <th>Title</th>
       <th>Author</th>
     </tr>
-    <xsl:for-each select="document('../books.xml')/booklist/book">
+    <xsl:for-each select="document(concat($g_root, '/books.xml'))/booklist/book">
       <xsl:variable name="class">
         <xsl:choose>
           <xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = 0">books1</xsl:when>
@@ -31,21 +32,17 @@
           <xsl:value-of select="@author" />
         </td>
       </tr>
-      <xsl:document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
+      <xsl:result-document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
           doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
           doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
-          href="{translate(concat($root, '/office/books/', @isbn, '.html'), ' ', '_')}">
+          href="{translate(concat($g_root, '/office/books/', @isbn, '.html'), ' ', '_')}">
         <html>
           <head>
             <title>Book: <xsl:value-of select="@title" /></title>
             <link rel="stylesheet" href="{$pre}default.css" type="text/css" />
           </head>
           <body><div>
-            <xsl:call-template name="header">
-              <xsl:with-param name="title" select="@title" />
-              <!-- TODO -->
-              <xsl:with-param name="pwd" select="concat($pwd, '/books')" />
-            </xsl:call-template>
+            <xsl:call-template name="header" />
             <p>
               <b>Title: </b> <xsl:value-of select="@title" /><br />
               <b>Edition: </b> <xsl:value-of select="@edition" /><br />
@@ -56,7 +53,7 @@
             <xsl:call-template name="footer" />
           </div></body>
         </html>
-      </xsl:document>
+      </xsl:result-document>
     </xsl:for-each>
   </table>
 </xsl:template>
diff --git a/xsl/common.xsl b/xsl/common.xsl
index 4d5ceec..6c1a764 100644
--- a/xsl/common.xsl
+++ b/xsl/common.xsl
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow" 
-    extension-element-prefixes="csc">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
 
 <xsl:template match="cscpage">
   <html>
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@
   </div>
   <div class="template-header">
     <xsl:apply-templates
-        select="document(concat($pwd, '/directory.xml'))/directory"/>
+        select="document(concat($g_pwd, '/directory.xml'))/directory"/>
   </div>
 </xsl:template>
 
@@ -65,8 +66,8 @@
   <a href="#pagetop" class="pagetop">Go to top</a>
   <div class="footer">
   <xsl:call-template name="menu" />
-  <p>This page was generated on <xsl:value-of select="$date" /> at 
-    <xsl:value-of select="$time" />.</p>
+  <p>This page was generated on <xsl:value-of select="$g_date" /> at 
+    <xsl:value-of select="$g_time" />.</p>
   <p class="infobox">
     The overall layout is designed specially for modern browsers. If you
     experience any problems, please report them, along with the version of
diff --git a/xsl/directory.xsl b/xsl/directory.xsl
index a27115a..37b86b1 100644
--- a/xsl/directory.xsl
+++ b/xsl/directory.xsl
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow" 
-    extension-element-prefixes="csc">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
 
 <xsl:template match="directory">
   <xsl:variable name="href">
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
   <a class="diritem headdir" href="{$href}">
     <xsl:value-of select="@title" />
   </a>
-  <xsl:apply-templates match="diritem" />
+  <xsl:apply-templates select="diritem" />
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="diritem">
diff --git a/xsl/events.xsl b/xsl/events.xsl
index 529fe77..47e2375 100644
--- a/xsl/events.xsl
+++ b/xsl/events.xsl
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow" 
-    extension-element-prefixes="csc">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
 
 <xsl:template match="events" name="events">
   <tr>
     <th colspan="2" class="news">Upcoming Events</th>
   </tr>
-  <xsl:for-each select="document(concat($pwd, '/events.xml'))/eventdefs/eventitem">
+  <xsl:for-each select="document(concat($g_root, '/events.xml'))/eventdefs/eventitem">
     <xsl:sort select="translate(@date, '-', '')" 
         order="ascending" data-type="number" />
-    <xsl:if test="translate(@date, '-', '') &gt;= translate($date, '-', '')">
+    <xsl:if test="translate(@date, '-', '') &gt;= translate($g_date, '-', '')">
       <tr>
         <td class="eventdate"><xsl:value-of select="@date" /></td>
         <td rowspan="2" valign="top" class="eventitem"> 
@@ -36,20 +37,13 @@
   </tr>
 </xsl:template>
 
-<xsl:template match="events-this-term">
-  <xsl:call-template name="events-by-term">
-    <xsl:with-param name="date" select="$date" />
-  </xsl:call-template>
-</xsl:template>
-
 <xsl:template name="events-by-term">
-  <xsl:param name="date" />
-  <p>The events for <xsl:value-of select="csc:term($date)" /> are listed here.
+  <p>The events for <xsl:value-of select="csc:term($g_date)" /> are listed here.
     You can also <a href="{$pre}events.ics">download an ICS</a> of them.</p>
-  <xsl:for-each select="document(concat($pwd, '/../events.xml'))/eventdefs/eventitem">
+  <xsl:for-each select="document(concat($g_root, '/events.xml'))/eventdefs/eventitem">
     <xsl:sort select="translate(@date, '-', '')" 
         order="ascending" data-type="number" />
-    <xsl:if test="csc:term(@date) = csc:term($date)">
+    <xsl:if test="csc:term(@date) = csc:term($g_date)">
       <h3><a href="{translate(concat($pre, 'events/', @room, '-', @date, '-', @time, '.html'), ' ', '_')}"><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></a></h3>
       <p>
         <strong>
@@ -68,19 +62,17 @@
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="eventitem">
-  <xsl:document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
+  <xsl:result-document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
       doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
       doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
-      href="{translate(concat($root, '/events/', @room, '-', @date, '-', @time, '.html'), ' ', '_')}">
+      href="{translate(concat($g_root, '/events/', @room, '-', @date, '-', @time, '.html'), ' ', '_')}">
     <html>
       <head>
         <title><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></title>
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="{$pre}default.css" type="text/css" />
       </head>
       <body><div>
-        <xsl:call-template name="header">
-          <xsl:with-param name="title" select="@title" />
-        </xsl:call-template>
+        <xsl:call-template name="header" />
         <h2>Information</h2>
         <div>
           Held in <xsl:value-of select="@room" />, on
@@ -91,44 +83,39 @@
         <xsl:call-template name="footer" />
       </div></body>
     </html>
-  </xsl:document>
+  </xsl:result-document>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="generate-event-files">
-  <xsl:apply-templates select="document(concat($pwd, '/../events.xml'))/eventdefs" />
+  <xsl:apply-templates select="document(concat($g_root, '/events.xml'))/eventdefs" />
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:key name="eventterm" match="/eventdefs/eventitem" use="csc:term(@date)" />
 
 <xsl:template match="old-events">
-  <xsl:for-each select="document(concat($pwd, '/../events.xml'))/eventdefs/eventitem">
+  <xsl:for-each select="document(concat($g_root, '/events.xml'))/eventdefs/eventitem">
     <xsl:sort select="translate(@date, '-', '')" 
         order="descending" data-type="number" />
-    <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*[csc:term(@date)=csc:term(current()/@date)]) and not(csc:term(@date) = csc:term($date))">
+    <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*[csc:term(@date)=csc:term(current()/@date)]) and not(csc:term(@date) = csc:term($g_date))">
       <p><a href="{translate(concat('old-',csc:term(@date), '.html'), ' ', '_')}">
         <xsl:value-of select="csc:term(@date)" />
       </a></p>
-      <xsl:document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
+      <xsl:result-document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
             doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
             doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
-            href="{translate(concat($root, '/events/old-', csc:term(@date), '.html'), ' ', '_')}">
+            href="{translate(concat($g_root, '/events/old-', csc:term(@date), '.html'), ' ', '_')}">
         <html>
           <head>
             <title>Events for <xsl:value-of select="csc:term(@date)" /></title>
             <link rel="stylesheet" href="{$pre}default.css" type="text/css" />
           </head>
           <body><div>
-            <xsl:call-template name="header">
-            <xsl:with-param name="title" 
-                select="concat('Events for ', csc:term(@date))" />
-            </xsl:call-template>
-            <xsl:call-template name="events-by-term">
-              <xsl:with-param name="date" select="@date" />
-            </xsl:call-template>
+            <xsl:call-template name="header" />
+            <xsl:call-template name="events-by-term" />
             <xsl:call-template name="footer" />
           </div></body>
         </html>
-      </xsl:document>
+      </xsl:result-document>
     </xsl:if>
   </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:template>
diff --git a/xsl/exec.xsl b/xsl/exec.xsl
index 9eae18f..a5eceb8 100644
--- a/xsl/exec.xsl
+++ b/xsl/exec.xsl
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow" 
-    extension-element-prefixes="csc">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
 
 <xsl:template match="execlist">
   <h3>Elected positions</h3>
diff --git a/xsl/functions.xsl b/xsl/functions.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b323b4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xsl/functions.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+<?xml version='1.0'?>
+
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
+
+<xsl:function name="csc:term" as="xs:string">
+  <xsl:param name="date" />
+  <xsl:variable name="date_year" as="xs:integer">
+    <xsl:analyze-string select="$date" regex="([0-9]+)-[0-9]+-[0-9]+">
+      <xsl:matching-substring>
+        <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)" />
+      </xsl:matching-substring>
+    </xsl:analyze-string>
+  </xsl:variable>
+  <xsl:variable name="date_month" as="xs:integer">
+    <xsl:analyze-string select="$date" regex="[0-9]+-([0-9]+)-[0-9]+">
+      <xsl:matching-substring>
+        <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)" />
+      </xsl:matching-substring>
+    </xsl:analyze-string>
+  </xsl:variable>
+  <xsl:variable name="term_text">
+    <xsl:choose>
+      <xsl:when test="$date_month ge 1 and $date_month le 4">Winter </xsl:when>
+      <xsl:when test="$date_month ge 5 and $date_month le 8">Spring </xsl:when>
+      <xsl:when test="$date_month ge 9 and $date_month le 12">Fall </xsl:when>
+    </xsl:choose>
+  </xsl:variable>
+  <xsl:value-of select="concat($term_text, $date_year)" />
+</xsl:function>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/xsl/media.xsl b/xsl/media.xsl
index 37a481c..0689486 100644
--- a/xsl/media.xsl
+++ b/xsl/media.xsl
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow" 
-    extension-element-prefixes="csc">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
 
 <xsl:template match="mediafile">
   <xsl:param name="ext" />
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@
 
 <xsl:template match="flvfile">
   <xsl:param name="mirror" />
-  <script type="text/javascript" src="flash/swfobject.js"></script>
+  <script type="text/javascript" src="flash/swfobject.js"><xsl:text> </xsl:text></script>
   <p id="player1"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
     Get the Flash Player</a> to see this video using Flash Player.</p>
   <script type="text/javascript">
@@ -27,19 +28,17 @@
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="mediaitem">
-  <xsl:document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
+  <xsl:result-document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
       doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
       doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
-      href="{translate(concat($root, '/media/', @title , '.html'), ' ', ' ')}">
+      href="{translate(concat($g_root, '/media/', @title , '.html'), ' ', ' ')}">
     <html>
       <head>
         <title><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></title>
         <link rel="stylesheet" href="{$pre}default.css" type="text/css" />
       </head>
       <body><div>
-        <xsl:call-template name="header">
-          <xsl:with-param name="title" select="@title" />
-        </xsl:call-template>
+        <xsl:call-template name="header" />
         <xsl:if test="abstract">
           <h2>Abstract</h2>
           <div>
@@ -91,11 +90,11 @@
         <xsl:if test="@buttons">
           <br/><br/>
           <!-- digg button -->
-          <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" 
-                  type="text/javascript" />
+          <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js"
+                  type="text/javascript"><xsl:text> </xsl:text></script>
           <!-- reddit button -->
           <script type="text/javascript" 
-                  src="http://reddit.com/button.js?t=3" />
+                  src="http://reddit.com/button.js?t=3"><xsl:text> </xsl:text></script>
         </xsl:if>
         <xsl:if test="other">
         <div>
@@ -110,7 +109,7 @@
           addthis_pub    = 'calumt';
         </script>
         <script type="text/javascript"
-            src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/addthis_widget.php?v=12" />
+            src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/addthis_widget.php?v=12"><xsl:text> </xsl:text></script>
         <!-- google ads -->
         <!--
         <script type="text/javascript">
@@ -123,12 +122,12 @@
           google_ad_channel = "1106187834";
         </script>
         <script type="text/javascript"
-            src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" />
+            src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"><xsl:text> </xsl:text></script>
         -->
         <xsl:call-template name="footer" />
       </div></body>
     </html>
-  </xsl:document>
+  </xsl:result-document>
   <li><a href= "{@title}.html"><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></a></li>
 </xsl:template>
 
diff --git a/xsl/members.xsl b/xsl/members.xsl
index adfc328..a60ac37 100644
--- a/xsl/members.xsl
+++ b/xsl/members.xsl
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow" 
-    extension-element-prefixes="csc">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
 
 <xsl:template match="members-this-term">
-  <p>The members for <xsl:value-of select="csc:term($date)" /> are
+  <p>The members for <xsl:value-of select="csc:term($g_date)" /> are
     listed here. We currently have 
-    <xsl:value-of select="count(document('../members.xml')/memberlist/member)" /> 
+    <xsl:value-of select="count(document(concat($g_root, '/members.xml'))/memberlist/member)" /> 
     members.</p>
   <table>
     <tr>
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@
       <th>Program</th>
       <th>Userid</th>
     </tr>
-    <xsl:for-each select="document('../members.xml')/memberlist/member">
+    <xsl:for-each select="document(concat($g_root, '/members.xml'))/memberlist/member">
       <xsl:variable name="class">
         <xsl:choose>
           <xsl:when test="position() mod 2 = 0">members1</xsl:when>
diff --git a/xsl/menu.xsl b/xsl/menu.xsl
index f3de1ea..f9d2e24 100644
--- a/xsl/menu.xsl
+++ b/xsl/menu.xsl
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow" 
-    extension-element-prefixes="csc">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
 
 <xsl:template match="menuitem">
   <xsl:variable name="pre2">
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="menu" name="menu">
- <xsl:apply-templates select="document('../menu.xml')/menudefs" />
+ <xsl:apply-templates select="document(concat($g_root, '/menu.xml'))/menudefs" />
 </xsl:template>
 
 </xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/xsl/news.xsl b/xsl/news.xsl
index c72dd0c..b396a77 100644
--- a/xsl/news.xsl
+++ b/xsl/news.xsl
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cow" 
-    extension-element-prefixes="csc">
+<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    xmlns:csc="http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/xslt">
 
 <xsl:template match="newsdefs">
-  <xsl:apply-templates select="newsitem[csc:term(@date) = csc:term($date)]">
-    <xsl:sort select="translate(@date, '-', '')" 
-        order="descending" data-type="number" />
+  <xsl:apply-templates select="newsitem[csc:term(@date) = csc:term($g_date)]">
+    <xsl:sort select="translate(@date, '-', '')"
+        order="descending" data-type="number" /> 
   </xsl:apply-templates>
 </xsl:template>
 
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@
   <tr>
     <th colspan="2" class="news">News</th>
   </tr>
-  <xsl:apply-templates select="document('../news.xml')/newsdefs" />
+  <xsl:apply-templates select="document(concat($g_root, '/news.xml'))/newsdefs" />
   <tr>
     <td class="newsitem" colspan="2">
       <a href="news/">Older news items</a> are available. Make sure you check 
@@ -37,9 +38,10 @@
   </tr>
 </xsl:template>
 
-<xsl:template match="news-this-term" name="news-by-term">
+<xsl:template name="news-by-term">
+  <xsl:param name="date" />
   <p>The news for <xsl:value-of select="csc:term($date)" /> is listed here.</p>
-  <xsl:for-each select="document('../news.xml')/newsdefs/newsitem">
+  <xsl:for-each select="document(concat($g_root, '/news.xml'))/newsdefs/newsitem">
     <xsl:sort select="translate(@date, '-', '')" 
         order="descending" data-type="number" />
     <xsl:if test="csc:term(@date) = csc:term($date)">
@@ -57,34 +59,31 @@
 <xsl:key name="newsterm" match="/newsdefs/newsitem" use="csc:term(@date)" />
 
 <xsl:template match="old-news">
-  <xsl:for-each select="document('../news.xml')/newsdefs/newsitem">
+  <xsl:for-each select="document(concat($g_root, '/news.xml'))/newsdefs/newsitem">
     <xsl:sort select="translate(@date, '-', '')" 
         order="descending" data-type="number" />
-    <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*[csc:term(@date)=csc:term(current()/@date)]) and not(csc:term(@date) = csc:term($date))">
+    <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*[csc:term(@date)=csc:term(current()/@date)]) and not(csc:term(@date) = csc:term($g_date))">
 	  <p><a href="{translate(concat('old-', csc:term(@date), '.html'), ' ', '_')}">
 	    <xsl:value-of select="csc:term(@date)" />
       </a></p>
-      <xsl:document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1"
+      <xsl:result-document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1"
           doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
           doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
-          href="{translate(concat($root, '/news/old-', csc:term(@date), '.html'), ' ', '_')}">
+          href="{translate(concat($g_root, '/news/old-', csc:term(@date), '.html'), ' ', '_')}">
         <html>
           <head>
             <title>News for <xsl:value-of select="csc:term(@date)" /></title>
             <link rel="stylesheet" href="{$pre}default.css" type="text/css" />
           </head>
           <body><div>
-            <xsl:call-template name="header">
-              <xsl:with-param name="title"
-                  select="concat('News for ', csc:term(@date))" />
-            </xsl:call-template>
+            <xsl:call-template name="header" />
             <xsl:call-template name="news-by-term">
               <xsl:with-param name="date" select="@date" />
             </xsl:call-template>
             <xsl:call-template name="footer" />
           </div></body>
         </html>
-      </xsl:document>
+      </xsl:result-document>
     </xsl:if>
   </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:template>