Re: param - default settings

> This would select the value of the <1> node in the current context,
> there is no such node and the nodename is invalid anyway

No, it would select the value 1.


> but
> 
> <xsl:param name="abs" select="'1'"/>
> 
> or 
> 
> <xsl:param name="abs">1</xsl:param>
> 
> both work.
but they do something different, they select the string '1' and the
result tree fragment consisting of a root node and a text node with
value 1, respectively.

The original poster's xsl fragment was correct, so either he is using a
processor that doesn't support passing in global params, or there was
something wrong in th epart of teh stylesheet that wasn't posted.

David

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