Re: [xsl] Scope of document() in XSL

[Victor <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Carlisle wrote:

>  The templates which will be applied to elements of doc2.xml refer at one 
>  point to an element of doc1.xml by using "//element".
>
>
> If the current node is in doc2 then //element selects all the element
> nodes in doc2. If you want doc1 then you want
> document('doc1.xml')//element
>
> document() itself doesn't have scope, it just returns a set of document
> nodes (one in this case) what matters is the definition of a leading /
> in XPath which doesn't refer to the main input document but rather to
> the root node ancestor of the current node.
>  
The problem is that actually there are multiple "doc1.xml" files and I 
have no chance in passing the actual file name to the template in my 
environment.
I am changing the template to pass the needed element via a parameter to 
the called template so this should work, but this works only because the 
structure of doc2.xml is not very deep.
It would be fine to have a way to distinguish between the "actual" 
document and the "root" document without need for the file name.

Victor