text or call-template inside call-template

On Friday (Jun 15), Thomas B. Passin wrote:

>  <xsl:template match="ref">
>      <xsl:call-template name='doLink'>
>          <xsl:with-param name='theLink' select='@id'/>
>      </xsl:call-template>
>  </xsl:template>
oh, yes, it works great. i felt afraid, when i saw jeni's example,
even more, when i wasn't able to run it in my xalan just as it
was written ;-) -- yep, i'm a lamer :-). but references looks
promising. 

a question -- is there any chance to put text inside
call-template as it is possible with apply-templates?
or better, use call-template inside call-template?
e.g. 
<xsl:call-template name="a">
   <xsl:with-param name="var" select="@some_value"/>
   <xsl:call-template name="b">
      <xsl:with-param name="var" select="@some_value"/>
   </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:call-template>

and tell the truth -- why all of you are using such terrifing
language as xslt is? <grin/> don't templates and xml parsers in
java or even some tree-structured objects are much better,
faster, simpler and flexible? :-)

-- 
Daniel `bonkey' Bauke; http://www.oho.pl/~bonkey/; {happiness=bike&&unix;}

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