Replacing Terms

I understand the concept in DocBook of profiling, or conditional text. In a 
particular situation, I have a case where we need to produce custom 
documentation from a core version, the custom documentation only differing 
by the fact that certain terms are called something else (essentially, just 
a global find and replace).

Rather than using the phrase element as recommended in the section on 
"Marking small bits of text", as described in 
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MarkTextBits.html, I was wondering if 
anyone else had ever instead done some kind of processing step before 
running Saxon?

Regards,

-pm

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