> This was working well in xalan, albeit slow:

Then this was a bug in that specific version of Xalan.

>
> main stylesheet:
> <xsl:variable name="doc"
select="document('HostAdminFormDefinitions.xml')"/>
>
> imported stylesheet:
> <xsl:template match="my:form[@name=$doc//form/@name]">
> .. merge doms..
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> Switching over to Saxon gives the error:
> "The match pattern in xsl:template may not contain references to
variables"
>
> Is there another way?


Yes, use:

<xsl:template match="my:form">
  <xsl:if test="@name=$doc//form/@name">
.. merge doms..
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>


Hope this helped.


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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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