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The context item within an ixsl:event template switches to the matching node which may either be the event target node or the first matching ancestor of the target node. Such a template works effectively as a new transform, so all global variables are re-evaluated, the context item for global variables in this case is the document node of the html page hosting the event node. Likewise, the root expression '/' will return the host document node.

This behaviour, where context is switched, is intentional and helpful when writing to the HTML page in response to a user event, it's also reasonably intuitive. There is an issue, however: if a source document parameter was set in the initial transform, no reference to this is available within an ixsl:event template (global variables are re-evaluated). The proposed solution for this is to provide an ixsl:source() function that will always return the document node of the source for the original transform, or return an empty sequence if this was not set.