<xsl:variable name="nodetree">
      <xsl:for-each select="$full_path[contains($dbs_searched,@db)]">
<!-- $dbs_searched variable is passed from a different stylesheet -->
        <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:variable>

  This would change the above variable declaration to the following:
<xsl:variable name="nodetree">
  <xsl:copy-of select="$full_path[contains($dbs_searched,@db)]"/>
</xsl:variable>

Greg Faron
Integre Technical Publishing Co.