RE: passing parameters with apply-template and documen

Sorry I missed that! I'm getting too accustomed to XSLT 2.0, where built-in
templates *do* pass the parameters through.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:oleg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 08 October 2004 11:16
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  passing parameters with apply-template and 
> document()
> 
> Robert McGrath wrote:
> 
> >       <xsl:apply-templates select="document('docB.xml')">
> >         <xsl:with-param name="paramB" select="$paramA"/>
> >       </xsl:call-template>
> 
> Beware that document() function returns root node (not to be confused 
> with outermost element node). So you are applying templates 
> to the root 
> node of the docB.xml and if you don't have a template that 
> matches "/" 
> or "node()", built-in template for a root node will be used. 
> And as all 
> built-in templates it doesn't pass parameters through.
> Use <xsl:apply-templates select="document('docB.xml')/*">
> -- 
> Oleg Tkachenko
> http://blog.tkachenko.com
> Multiconn Technologies, Israel