selecting a document()'s root node

hi,

i want to generate a xml site navigation structure from a file that
shows the physical data-structure.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<site xmlns:site="http://limpens.com/site";>
        <site:document-base>file:///D:/usr/jan/My Documents/Visual Studio
Projects/Limpens.com/Web/Data</site:document-base>
        <site:root-document>
                <site:xml-document>/BlogCollection.xml</site:xml-document>
                <site:children>
                        <site:document>
                                
<site:xml-Document>/IllustrationBlog.xml</site:xml-Document>
                                <site:children>
                                        <site:document>
                                                
<site:xml-Document>/Illustrations/AfroBabe.xml</site:xml-Document>
                                        </site:document>
                                        <site:document>
                                                
<site:xml-Document>/Illustrations/ClubFlyers.xml</site:xml-Document>
                                        </site:document>
                                        <site:document>
                                                
<site:xml-Document>/Illustrations/iEditoraComics.xml</site:xml-Document>
                                        </site:document>
                                </site:children>
                        </site:document>
                        <site:document>
                                
<site:xml-Document>/PublicationBlog.xml</site:xml-Document>
                        </site:document>
                        <site:document>
                                
<site:xml-Document>/DevelopmentBlog.xml</site:xml-Document>
                        </site:document>
                </site:children>
        </site:root-document>
</site>

i want to generate

<site>
  <homepage>
  <link>/blogcollection</link>
  <title>foo</title>
  <description>bar</description>
    <children>
       <document>
       <link>/blogcollection/illustrationblog</link>
       <title>illustrations</illustrations>
       <description>...</description>
       <children>       
        ......
       </children>
       </document>
    </children>
  </homepage>
</site>

the title and description elements are generated by document() calls
to the said xml documents, which have many different structures, some
have schemas and namespaces, some don't.

so I thought I create this

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:lc="http://limpens.com/blogbase";
xmlns:site="http://limpens.com/site";>
<!-- I include the namespaces here -->
        <xsl:template match="/">
                <xsl:apply-templates select="//site:root-document"/>
        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="site:root-document">
                <xsl:variable name="path"
select="concat(/site/site:document-base[1],site:xml-document)"/>
                <xsl:variable name="my-node" select="document($path)" />
                <xsl:apply-templates select="$my-node::*" />
        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="BlogCollection">BlogCollection!
        <!-- blogcollection has no namespace, I wonder if this will work at 
all... -->
        </xsl:template>

<!-- and other templates for other root nodes I might encounter -->
</xsl:stylesheet>

First big question: Is this the right way to do this?

Second question... how do I generically select the root node?
                <xsl:apply-templates select="$my-node::*" />
does not work, I am afraid... 


thanks for any help!!
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Jan
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