save the current node in a variable:

<xsl:for-each select="something"
 <xsl:variable  name="here" select="."/>
   <xsl:for-each select="something/else"
    I was <xsl:value-of select="$here"/. but now I'm <xsl:value-of
 select ="."/>

David

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