Re: variable question

In XSLT 1.0 the only way to do this would be by using a stylesheet to generate your stylesheet.

Ugh.

Maybe Mike or Jeni or someone can suggest an easier way to do this in XSLT 2.0.

Maybe use a key?

I'm confused (again!). I'm basically trying to rework some of my code, in part based around Geert's suggestions, but I can't really see how to do what I'm wanting to do (which is to be able to work on content from external files). It seems, for example, that I cannot use a key on content I want to access via the doc function.

<xsl:template match ...>
  <xsl:variable name="key-value" select="[your key value]"/>
  <!-- ... now changing context to the bibrecord document -->
  <xsl:for-each select="$bibrecord">
    <!-- ... now changing context to the key-retrieved element
             inside the bibrecord doc -->
    <xsl:for-each select="key('biblio', $key-value">
       ... do your thing ...
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Cheers,
Wendell

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