It would be fine to have a way to distinguish between the "actual" 
  document and the "root" document without need for the file name.


have a global variable at the top level of your stylesheet
<xsl:variable name="initialinput" select="/"/>

then you can use $initialinput//element in any context and get back
elements from the main input document.

David

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