> I want to create a number of variables from an external 
> document in order to transform a different XML file, but the 
> way that I thought to accomplish this was using for-each to 
> cycle through the elements in the external document doesn't 
> accomplish what I want because the variables seem to only 
> exist within the for-each.

I suspect that creating "a number of variables" in this case is the
wrong approach. Create a single variable whose value is an XML tree, and
access the components of the tree using path expressions.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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