Re: [xsl] loop without switching context

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I realized I could pass in the context node as a param, but it seems 
that is only giving me access to children and not ancestors of the 
context node.

Not so, unless you copied it. If you write

<xsl:with-param name="a" select="."/>

then the called template can do $a/ancestor::node().

Michael Kay
Saxonica