RE: Reprocess template results in same stylesheet?

> 
> There is something I find myself wishing I could do in XSLT, but I'm 
> too inexperienced to know if whether it's even sensible.  I 
> wish there 
> were a way to apply  a template, where instead of the 
> processor writing 
> the template result to the output stream, it would push the 
> result tree 
> back onto the input stream where it would be available for continued 
> processing by the same stylesheet.

You can do this provided your process offers the xx:node-set()
extension, which nearly all processors do.

<xsl:variable name="temp">
  <xsl:apply-templates mode="phase1"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:apply-templates select="xx:node-set($temp)" mode="phase2"/>

The namespace for "xx" depends on the processor you are using.

Michael Kay



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