Re: Applying a named template to arbitrary content

Perhaps you are giving us too much information to be able to see clearly
what you need?  Now it looks to me like you simply want to put a piece
of output in a variable and pass it into a template as a parameter:

 <xsl:variable name="stuff">
    <i>some stuff</i>
 </xsl:variable>

  ...
  <xsl:call-template name="tmp">
    <xsl:with-param select="$stuff"/>
  </xsl:call-template>
  ...

 <xsl:template name="tmp">
    <xsl:param name="param"/>
   <b><xsl:copy-of select="$param"/></b>
 </xsl:call-template>

See the FAQ etc., on RTFs vs. node-sets and the need to use either
xsl:copy-of or node-set() to get the RTF back out complete with tags.

 Steve


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