Referencing Variables In and Out of Scope

You can refer to variables that are in the current scope directly—without any qualifiers. To reference a variable that is out of scope, you must use the following directory-like notation to describe its position relative to either the current scope or the initial scope.

Use this notation...	To...
variableName	Reference a variable in the current scope. For example: shipNum.
../variableName	Reference a variable one or more levels above the current scope. For example:
	../oNum	One level above
	../ ../oNum	Two levels above
/variableName	Reference a variable in the initial scope. For example: /oNum.
recName/variableName	Reference a variable within a specific document. For example:
	buyerInfo/state	Selects the state element from the document buyerInfo in the current scope
	../buyerInfo/oNum	Selects the state element from the document buyerInfo one level above current scope