I am reading an external xml document into a variable at the
very top of my stylesheet (is this legal?)... later I loop
through this document.. but I don't know how to access the
variable in a select statement (it doesn't like the $ in the
select statement). Here's the code:
<xsl:variable name="xmTmplt"><xsl:copy-of
select="document('usr_member.xml')//FLDS"/></xsl:variable>
Why are you making a copy of (parts of) the document? The original is
just as good. Use:
<xsl:variable name="xmTmplt"
select="document('usr_member.xml')//FLDS"/>
<xsl:template name="TEMP">
<hr/>
<xsl:for-each select="xmTmplt/FLD">
<xsl:text>testing..</xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
<hr/>
</xsl:template>
You then want $xmTmplt/FLD.
This works when you rewrite the variable as above, because $xmTmplt is
now a node-set. As you wrote it, it was a result-tree-fragment, and in
1.0 you can't use path expressions to index into a result tree fragment.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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