Hi,
<xsl:variable name="forcountry" select="GB"/>
<xsl:include href="secondxsl.xsl"/>
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<xsl:if test="metadata[countryname=$forcountry]">
[snip]
But, it seems that the value of forcountry is blank within
secondxsl.xsl.
Are you sure it's not an empty string in the first stylesheet too? Just a
quess, but you're trying to bind the $forcountry to a node-set of nodes with
the name "GB" and and as your variable is a top-level element, the root element
of your source tree should then be "GB". If you want to bind the $forcountry to
a string "BG", use
<xsl:variable name="forcountry" select="'GB'"/>
Hopefully I didn't answer a wrong question again,
Jarno