<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
exclude-result-prefixes="xhtml" >
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="windows-1252"
exclude-result-prefixes="xhtml" ></xsl:output>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:variable name="target"   select="target" />
<xsl:variable name="target1"   select="target1" />

You need to define global parameters, not variables e.g
  <xsl:param name="target"/>
then your .NET code will set the value of those parameters.

	Martin Honnen
	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/