> I'm just trying to understand, whenever we initialize some 
> variable for
> example in that way <xsl:variable name="somevar" 
> select="ancestor::*"/>
> what do we have stored inside it? Is it an array or some root node?
> 
It is a node-set: a set of (references to) nodes in a tree.

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