Declare a global variable

<xsl:variable name="root" select="/"/>

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Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Jeff Rosler
> Sent: 20 November 2002 15:46
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Accessing the source nodetree while in another context
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Can anyone tell me if there is a way to access the source 
> nodetree while within another nodetree context? Here's a 
> simple example -
> 
> ...
> <xsl:variable name="mydoc" select="document('mydoc.xml')"/> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="$mydoc//*"/> ...
> 
> While the apply-templates is run, the context for the current 
> node is set to $mydoc and any templates that are executed use 
> that. If I want to access the nodetree for the source 
> document on which the transform was run, is there a simple 
> syntax to specify it? I see how I could do this if I used an 
> xsl:for as I could copy part of the source nodetree into a 
> variable and just access the variable, but it seems like if I 
> want to use templates, they are going to be in a global scope 
> and I won't be able to access my variable as it isn't in the 
> same scope. Therefore, I would need some syntax to specify 
> the source nodetree directly.
> 
> Thanks for any and all comments. Please let me know if I'm 
> missing something simple :-). Jeff Rosler Consultant 
> Flatirons Solutions Corp 2555 55th Street Suite 100D Boulder, 
> CO  80301 303-544-0514 x11 jeff.rosler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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