a specific attribute in the root node
root nodes don't have attributes so I assume you mean the top level
element node.
Your description wasn't too clear but it sounds like you want the set of
all root nodes for which the top level elemnt has this attribue
the set of documents that have <xxx yyy="bbb"> is
<xsl:variable name="x" select="document(list/item/@ref)[xxx/@yyy='bbb']"/>
David
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