Small Report XSL/XPATH Template Help

i am trying to make a small report formatting template that i can reuse via xsl:import's and i am having a problem getting started.

I know how to write formatting logic with templates where the XML placement isnt needed or relivant.

<xsl:call-template name="NifftyLookingWrapper">
<xsl:with-param name="body">
</xsl:call-template>

and the template just makes body look pretty.

But now i would like to actually chew on something like this ...

<theunknown>
<tbl>
<row>
<cells>...</cells
<cells>...</cells
</row>
<row>
<cells>...</cells
<cells>...</cells
</row>
</tbl>
</theunknown>

.. where the 'unknown' could be anywhere inside a xml document.

My would be solution is to do something like this ...

<xsl:call-template name="tbl">
<xsl:with-param name="loc">
location of above unknown here
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>

<xsl:template name="tbl">
<xslaram name="loc"/>
[begin]
<xsl:for-each select="$loc/row">
i've found a row
</xsl:for-each>
[end]
</xsl:template>
location of above unknown here

... where i would be able to call the tbl template and give it a $loc and it would transform that appropriately.

Basically the same as my NiffyLookingWrapper but it looks at the XML inside of it and processes it.

This is what is known as a dynamic Xpath expression
Do a Google search to find out more.

The XSLT1 specification does not support it (nor I understand
does XSLT2). However some parsers do support it through
an non-standard extension (Saxon, Xalan?)

- Finnbarr

Fascinating, i must be trying to do something simple in a very complicated way. Thanks