Declare a global variable

<xsl:variable name="root" select="/"/>

and when you want to refer to the original document, write
select="$root/x/y/z".

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Meltem
> Kogelbauer
> Sent: 29 April 2002 19:39
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  document() and xpath
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> here is the simplified version of code;
> 1st XML that is generated on-the-fly
> <page>
> 	<form>
> 		<name/>
> 		<id/>
> 	</form>
> ...
> </page>
>
> 2nd XML that is a flat file, xml.xml
> <menu>
> 	<name/>
> 	<name/>
> 	<name/>
> </menu>
>
> In the XSL
>
> <for-each select="document('xml.xml')/menu/name">
> 	<value-of select="text()"/>
> 	<apply-templates select="/page/form" />
> </for-each>
>
>
> My problem is with the xpath (I think) in <apply-templates>
> element. When
> looping in the external XML, how can I write the XPath to the current
> document? Is this possible?
>
> cheers
>
> Meltem
>
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