This is a faq, inside the loop the current node is not in your original
document so // does not select nodes from the input document. save the
input document in a global variable

<xsl:variable name="inputdoc" select="/"/>

then refer to it as

	<xsl:for-each select="$inputdoc/root/path2/deptinfo">

assuming root is your top level element select="//root/ is a very
expensive way to select it as it will search the entire document looking
for root elements. You want /root not //root (or in this case you want
$inputdoc/root not $inputdoc//root )

David

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