I think you should use an object Processorto build XdmNode, see the documentation that says:
NewDocumentBuilder, , , DocumentBuilder. ( , XdmNode) . XML Stream Uri, DOM, Microsoft XML , XmlNode, XmlReader.
XdmNode SetParameter http://saxonica.com/documentation/html/dotnetdoc/Saxon/Api/XsltTransformer.html#SetParameter%28Saxon.Api.QName,Saxon.Api.XdmValue%29, XdmValue XdmNode (XmlValue β XdmItem β XdmNode).
, Saxon 9.5 HE .NET:
Processor proc = new Processor();
DocumentBuilder db = proc.NewDocumentBuilder();
XsltTransformer trans;
using (XmlReader xr = XmlReader.Create("../../XSLTFile1.xslt"))
{
trans = proc.NewXsltCompiler().Compile(xr).Load();
}
XdmNode input, lookup;
using (XmlReader xr = XmlReader.Create("../../XMLFile1.xml"))
{
input = db.Build(xr);
}
using (XmlReader xr = XmlReader.Create("../../XMLFile2.xml"))
{
lookup = db.Build(xr);
}
trans.InitialContextNode = input;
trans.SetParameter(new QName("lookup-doc"), lookup);
using (XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(Console.Out))
{
trans.Run(new TextWriterDestination(xw));
}
XSLT
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>
<xsl:param name="lookup-doc"/>
<xsl:key name="map" match="map" use="key"/>
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="item">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:value-of select="key('map', ., $lookup-doc)/value"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
XML
<root>
<item>foo</item>
</root>
<root>
<map>
<key>foo</key>
<value>bar</value>
</map>
</root>
<root>
<item>bar</item>
</root>