Xtykutl

In XSLT 2.0 I am transforming a tei-xml document into HTML. In that transformationI need content from another document: I want to copy/transform a small set of nodes from the second document into the HTML output.

While processing the principal tei document I get the id and assign it to a variable:

<xsl:variable name="licenseid" select="./replace(@corresp,'#','')"/>

Then I go out to the other document and fetch the node using the variable, with the returned node assigned to a variable:

<xsl:variable name="licenseloc" select="doc(concat($somepath,'includes_sourcedesc.xml'))//tei:list[@type='copyright_type']/tei:item[@xml:id=$licenseid]"/>

This node I obtain looks like this:

<list type="copyright_type">

  <item xml:id="copyright-cc-by-nc-sa-4.0">

     <desc xml:lang="en">This work is made by available the author under the 

     <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 

        4.0 International License</ref>.</desc>

  </item>

</list>

And I want to transform it (from desc) to this:

<span>This work is made by available by the author under the 

     <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 

        4.0 International License</a>.</span>

If this were in my 'current' tei document I would handle it through templates, but I'm unsure how to copy and transform the nested layers from within a different 'current' document.