It's clear you're doing something badly wrong, but without seeing your code
it's impossible to tell what.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: White, Clinton [mailto:whitec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 21 February 2008 18:09
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Variables and more than one document
> 
> I am working with XBRL instance documents 
> 
> For each element in an XBRL instance document, I need to find 
> the associated label in another document For each element in 
> the first document, I create a first-variable and select the 
> element's local-name( ) I then create a second-variable and 
> concat('label','_','first-variable')
> I then try to find this second-variable as an attribute in a 
> second document AND I get zero results
> 
> Is my variable out of scope when I go into the second document?
> What might be a solution?
> 
> Thanks - Skip