RE: How to get out the document()-file

> From: Roger [mailto:oxyme@xxxxxxxxxx]
>
> I have the following problem. I have an external xml-data-document
> (list.xml) from which I read a list of elements using the document()
> function. I want use a for-each-selection for all those elements, to
> display them all in a row. Inside the for-each, I need to use data
from
> the original xml-data-document (data.xml).
>
> Now I don't get any data displayed from the data.xml document inside
the
> for-each. I've used an absolute path to get to the root of the
data.xml
> file, but that doesn't seem to work. I've checked the absolute path
> outside of the for-each, and there it works fine. So I suppose I'm
> trapped into the list.xml document. How do I get out? Any ideas?

This is a common situation.  While you are within the for-each block,
the context comes from the external document, so path expressions refer
to it, not to the original source document.  The solution is to create a
global variable for the source document, like this -

<xsl:variable name='source-doc' select='/'/>

You can use this variable, which contains all the nodes from the source
document, within the for-each loop.  Note that you may want to be more
specific than "/", depending on your needs.

Cheers,

Tom P