It’s often convenient to share a common glossary across many documents. If $glossary-collection points to a glossary, the stylesheets will automatically populate glossary entries in the document being transformed.

To achieve this:

1. Create a shared glossary and store it somewhere. Make sure that each entry in your shared glossary has a unique xml:id value.

2. Run your transformation with $glossary-collection set to the URI of that document.

3. In the document you’re transforming, refer to the shared entries with completely empty glossentry elements that have the same xml:id as an entry in the shared glossary.

The stylesheets will copy those entries into your document before processing it.