XPath gives you the ability to navigate in any direction in the target XML 
document. You can move downward from the context node, upward from the 
context node, and sideways from the context node, in any combination. An XML 
document is a tree, similar in structure to a directory tree. As you know, 
you can navigate from any directory in your file system to any other 
directory, in a number of different ways. XPath does the same thing.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Ministry of Software Development
http://unclechutney.blogspot.com

I just flew in from Chicago with
a man with a wooden leg named Smith
who shot an elephant in my pajamas.
So I bit him.


"Arnost Sobota" <sabotage@m...> wrote in message 
news:454c6931$0$5072$ba4acef3@n......
> Dear XSLT community,
>
> I'm currently developing and XSLT and I'm now facing a problem that would 
> easily be solved *if* I could find a way to create a node) some place else 
> than the XML context node.
> I'm inside a xsl:template, so the scope of any XSL action performed here 
> is the matching XML node. What I'd like is to overcome this limitation by 
> being able to perform an action outside this context node (in a node that 
> I would explicitly indicate, of course).
> My guess alas! is that it is impossible, but I'd dream to see somebody 
> prove me wrong!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnost