[xsl] selecting a document()'s root node

[Jan Limpens <jan.limpens@xxxxxxxxx>]

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!!
-- 
Jan
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