> spot[foo

you don't mean that as spot doesn't have foo children, I think you mean
this:


<xsl:for-each select="spot">
<xsl:variable name="spot" select="."/>
<xsl:for-each select="document('x.xml')/*/foo[@location=$spot/@value]/bar[@type=$spot/@name]">
 something....

David

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