RE: accessing attributes from different contexts

> Considering the following xsl code
> 
> <xsl:template match="elem[@attrib]">
>   <xsl:variable name="attrib" select="@attrib"/>
>   <xsl:value-of select="$otherDoc/otherElem[@attrib=$attrib]"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> , is there a way to compare the "attrib" attribute of the 
> template's context node to the one in the otherDoc xpath 
> expression without creating a variable? If the above approach 
> the best way to do this?

the alternative is

<xsl:value-of select="$otherDoc/otherElem[@attrib=current()/@attrib]"/>

but I would hesitate to say that either is better than the other.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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