calling template with parameters

Hi.
I have a problem passing a parameter.

Why is the parameter in template "newslist" empty??


	<xsl:template match="shownews">
		<xsl:variable name="count" select="@count"/>
		Here it works: <xsl:value-of select="$count"/>	
		<xsl:apply-templates select="document('news/news.xml')">
			<xsl:with-param name="newscount" select="$count"/>
		</xsl:apply-templates>  
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="newslist">
		<xsl:param name="newscount"/>		
		now newscount is empty: <xsl:value-of select="$newscount"/>
		<!-- At this point, I want to process $newscount elements of
		type <news>, but the parameter newscount is empty.-->
	</xsl:template>


### news/news.xml ###
<newslist>
	<news id="123">
		<title>important news</title>
		<created>18.12.2000</created>
		<expires/>
		<content>foo</content>
		<created_by>rh</created_by>
	</news>
</newslist>
#####################


Thanks,
Roman

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