XSLT Test Pattern

I have to admit that I gave MbUnit a spin recently. It's packaged
somewhat haphazardly, but its design is provocative. Basically, it's
gone all the way toward using metadata to declare much more complex
patterns than I had been using. You can see my blog entry here
<http://slideguitarist.blogspot.com/2007/11/mbunit-vs-nunit-cage-match.h
tml> , if you're interested. There is a pattern I use all the time: load
XML with or without validation, with or without an XmlResolver; pass it
through 1 or more XSL transforms, with or without an XmlResolver; apply
XPath expressions using namespaces and assert something about what I get
back. I don't want XML diffing, by the way. 
 
Of course I could do all this in my TestFixtureSetUp, or create an
abstact base class that does the setup by calling virtual protected
methods that implement the steps in the "template pattern" I describe
above, but then I'd be mixing NUnit's declarative design with an
imperative design. It's kind of handy, though, to have a "test invoker"
inject node sets or scalar values that come back from the XPathNavigator
object that the fixture (or the fixture "runner") is maintaining for me.

 
So: is there an idiomatic way to do some of these things in NUnit?
Namely, declare a fixture setup pattern, and get the test runner to
invoke my [Test] methods with arguments? Should I cross-post this to the
Version 3 Development group?
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