XSL: How best to store a node in a variable and then use it in future xpath expressions?

Question

I need to be able to store a node set in variable and then perform more filting/sorting on it afterward. All the examples I\'ve seen of this involve either using XSL2 or ext

Answer 1

Another note, if you want to be able to use the variable as part of an XPath statement, you need to select into the variable with instead of

value-of will only take the text of the node and you wont be able to use the node-set function to return anything meaningful.