> Somebody who reads my code will have a tough time figuring out that the
> <xsl:for-each...> is there simply to change the current nodeset.

possibly not as that's one of the more common uses of for-each
(especially with key() or id())

however if you don't want to do that, don't you just want

select="xalan:evaluate(concat('$container/',$path))"/>

David

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