Variable "query" doesn't contain any tags. It's a tree containing a document
node, an element node, and an attribute node. If you want tags, you either
have to serialize the tree to lexical XML, or you have to write it as a
string variable rather than a tree fragment.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

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> Subject:  variable rtf as querystring in document uri
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am pondering on the possibility of the following:
> 
> 
> 
> <xsl:variable 
> name="server">http://mydomain/q.php?query=</xsl:variable>
> <xsl:variable name="query">
> 	<request id="1" />
> </xsl:variable>
> <xsl:variable name="url">
> 	<xsl:copy-of select="$server" />
> 	<xsl:copy-of select="$query" />
> </xsl:variable>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="document($url)" />
> 
> 
> 
> Without the variable $query it works (as it reacts properly 
> on the responded xml by applying the templates), but combined 
> I loose the 'tags' of variable 'query'.
> 
> How to do it properly?
> 
> I downloaded EXSLT uri-encode and tried, but with no changes 
> in behaviour.
> 
> Greetings Rob