Re: XSL - avoiding code duplication

<xsl:template match="commonref" mode="quux">
  <xsl:variable name="attribute">
    <xsl:call-template name="setattribute">
      <xsl:with-param name="node" select="."/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:variable>
  ...
</xsl:template>

Enjoy,
Wendell

I'm trying to cut down on the duplication of XML and XSL in my
project....

...I'm not very fond of this kind of
cut-and-paste development so I tried to write a call-template function
to manage these variables, however, if I do that the scope of the
variables doesn't reach my mode function.  For example:
<xsl:template match="commonref" mode="quux">
   <xsl:call-template name="set-vars">
       <xsl:with-param name="node" select="."/>
   </xsl:call-template>
   <xsl:value-of select="$attribute"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="set-vars">
  <xsl:param name="node/>
  <xsl:variable name="attribute">
      <xsl:choose>
         <xsl:when test="node/@attribute">
            <xsl:value-of select="node/@attribute"/>
         </xsl:when>
         <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-of select="id(node/@idref)/@attribute"/>
         </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:variable>
</xsl:template>
Does not work and gives an error that the variable is out of scope.
Sensible.  But my question is how to I compartmentalize this code so I
don't have to cut-and-paste it all over the place (btw there are about
5 variables I need to do this with each time -- so the c-n-p is a lot
more than it seems here).
Suggestions?
-j

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