I'm trying to run an XQuery with 2 external parameters expected as document-node(). declare variable $common:annotations as document-node() external ; declare variable $common:patterns as document-node() external ; When I put in a value in the external parameters in the transformation , it forces a quote around them Put in: doc('file://...') Turns into 'doc(file://... <file:///\\...> )' And I get runtime exceptions about a string being passed where a document-node() is expected. Is there any way to pass document nodes directly (not by name) to XQuery within Oxygen ? ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee Senior Principal Software Engineer Epocrates, Inc. dlee@epocrates.com <mailto:dlee@epocrates.com> 812-482-5224