RE: Conditionally compare dates from two XML docs?

> How do I access the 'date1' from the original source tree, 
> now that I'm processing the external document 'AddNews.xml'? 
> i.e, change context from one document to another?

Bind a variable to the original context before calling document(), and
then use path expressions that start with that variable:

<xsl:variable name="d" select="."/>

  ...


<xsl:value-of select="$d/x/y/z"/>

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