Sorry, silly mistake on my side.

The reason why l want a global variable for an element name is that the
stylesheet compares two xml documents, and displays the results in an
xml document. A program will read in the xml document, and l would like
to ensure that the elements that it will be looking for exist with the
same name.

Thanks.

Arv'.

 --- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 
> <xsl:variable name="elementName" value="foo"/>
> 
> That selects the foo child element of the current node (which is teh
> document node of your input document) so unless the top level element
> in
> your input is foo this will be empty.
> 
> It sounds like you want the string foo which is
> 
> <xsl:variable name="elementName" value="'foo'"/>
> 
> But there isn't a lot of point using a global variable witha fixed
> string definition like that in
> 
>     <xsl:element name="{$elementName}">
> 
> As it could more easily be written
> <foo>
> 
> David
> 
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