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?

-
Claude Montpetit



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