Very often though (eg sorting tables) you just need to specify an
element name, not a full path and that can be done with

select="*[name()=$name]"

if $name is the dynamically supplied string.

If you know it's always a two part path with 2 names you can of course
do

select="*[name()=$name1]/*[name()=$name2"

but this gets tedious if you want to be able to specify arbitrary paths.

Cheers,
Wendell

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