Re: using mode-values within a template

 <xsl:template match="foo" mode="bar">
     <xsl:variable name="mode" select="'bar'"/>

  It's not the most elegant way but it works!

But what is "work" here? As others have said this information can not be
that useful, everywhere where it is legal to use the syntax $mode  you
could just as easily use the string 'bar' as either $mode is set to 'bar'
or it is out of scope.

> but I haven't read anything about a general element siblings (only
> preceding- and following-siblings) in xpath!! 
siblings are ../* (children of your parent)

But you want all your sibling projects that are not you, so that is

select="preceding-sibling::project|following-sibling::project"
or

select="../project[not(generate-id(.)=generate-id(current()))]

or if your name attribute is enough to distinguish:

select="../project[not(@name=current()/@name]

(don't use // as in //project unless you really want to search the
entire document, // is almost always the cause of slow stylesheets)

> %0A      
that is hex 10 in URI quoted syntax, ie it's a newline character coming
from your white space before www: you can get rid of that by using

 <xsl:variable name="online_doc" select="normalize-space(docu[@kind='url'])"/>

David

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