> not since surely "/" simply specifies the global processing scope in  
> any case.

/ denotes the root of the current document, of which you have two.
when processing test.xml / denotes the root of that file, and when
processing include.xml it denotes the root of that.

If you want to refer to the root of a different document you can not use
/ you must store the document node in a variable, or refer t it via a
function such as doc().

David

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