Jeremy Quinn writes:
 > <page>
 >     <about>blah blah blah</about>
 >     <title>Blah</title>
...
 > </page>
 > 
 > I am trying to use this template to use the "uri" of my parent link, to pull in the top level node of parent external document into a variable, then access it's "about" and "title" elements, via the variable.
 > 
 > <xsl:template match="link" mode="parent">
 >     <xsl:variable name="lp" select="document(uri)"/>
 >     <a href="{uri}" title="{$lp/about}"><xsl:value-of select="$lp/title"/></a>

thats because document() returns the root of the XML document, not
the top element. you need "page/about", not "about", etc

 > I also tried this, but it still does not work:
 > 
 >     <xsl:value-of select="document(uri)/title"/>

ditto. try "document(uri)/page/title"

sebastian


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