accessing node not belonging to subtree processed by j

Hello,

How do I access a node not belonging to the subtree (DOMSource) that is
transformed by a Java transformer (javax.xml.transform) ? I tried both
"//<node>" and "ancestor::<root>//<node>" as xpath location steps in the
stylesheet used by the transformer. The result is empty while it works when
I transform the whole tree into a single result file.

I suspect that the transformer regards the subtree root as the root of what
it can access. But then - how to transform subtrees with each transformation
result going to its individual file and still being able to access nodes not
belonging to the subtree at hand ?

I appreciate any help

thank you

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