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 <xsl:variable name="POSITION" select="position()" as="xs:integer"/> <xsl:sequence select="$FOO[$POSITION]"/> Interestingly my immediate reaction, "$FOO[current()/position()]" isn't right. current() does indeed give the XSLT context item, but as a sequence of item(), i.e. a singleton sequence, so it has a position of 1 within the scope of the /. Thus the top-level XPath expression position() = current()/position(), within some XSLT iteration is not (usually) true. Michael Kay states "in practice it's very rare to write an expression on the right-hand side of <</>> that depends upon the context position or size" on p 603 of the 4th Edition of his XSLT2.0 Programmer's Reference. In years of working with XSLT I hadn't looked at this issue in any detail. When something didn't work as anticipate either I used the XSLT variable binding or in XSLT 3 use a local let, as Martin Honnen suggested. ;-) -- *John Lumley* MA PhD CEng FIEE john@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Saxonica Ltd 
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