RE: XSL2 string result from XSL1 template

Your template is returning a sequence of text nodes. The simplest way to
convert this to a single string is:

<xsl:variable name="fulltarget" as="xs:string">
  <xsl:value-of>
    <xsl:call-template name="encode-url">
      <xsl:with-param name="str"
select="concat($urlprefix,'docs/',$book,'/',$subf,'#',$jid)" />
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:value-of>
</xsl:variable>

the effect of the xsl:value-of instruction is to convert the sequence of
text nodes into a single text node.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Nicholls [mailto:trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 April 2009 12:40
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  XSL2 string result from XSL1 template
> 
> I am running an XSL 2.0 stylesheet which includes some 
> ubiquitous XSL 1.0 stylesheets which provide some standard features.
> 
> The variable definition here gives an error at runtime:
> 
>   <xsl:variable name="fulltarget" as="xs:string">
>     <xsl:call-template name="encode-url">
>       <xsl:with-param name="str"
> select="concat($urlprefix,'docs/',$book,'/',$subf,'#',$jid)" />
>     </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:variable>
> 
> The error is XTTE0570: A sequence of more than one item is 
> not allowed as the value of variable $fulltarget
> 
> 
> OK, I understand the error, and I could write an XSL 2 
> version of the encode-url template that would return a single 
> string, but how would I modify the CALLING stylesheet to work 
> with what I already have?
> 
> The called template looks like this ($safe, $ascii, $latin1 
> and $hex are what you would expect):
> 
>   <xsl:template name="encode-url">
>     <xsl:param name="str"/>   
>     <xsl:if test="$str">
>       <xsl:variable name="first-char" select="substring($str,1,1)"/>
>       <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="contains($safe,$first-char)">
>           <xsl:value-of select="$first-char"/>
>         </xsl:when>
>         <xsl:otherwise>
>           <xsl:variable name="charval">
>             <xsl:choose>
>               <xsl:when test="contains($ascii,$first-char)">
>                 <xsl:value-of
> select="string-length(substring-before($ascii,$first-char)) + 32"/>
>               </xsl:when>
>               <xsl:when test="contains($latin1,$first-char)">
>                 <xsl:value-of
> select="string-length(substring-before($latin1,$first-char)) + 160"/>
>               </xsl:when>
>               <xsl:otherwise>
>                 <xsl:message terminate="no">Warning: string 
> contains an out of range character.</xsl:message>
>                 <xsl:text>63</xsl:text>
>               </xsl:otherwise>
>             </xsl:choose>
>           </xsl:variable>
>         <xsl:variable name="hex-digit1"
> select="substring($hex,floor($charval div 16) + 1,1)"/>
>         <xsl:variable name="hex-digit2" 
> select="substring($hex,$charval mod
> 16 + 1,1)"/>
>         <xsl:value-of select="concat('%',$hex-digit1,$hex-digit2)"/>
>         </xsl:otherwise>
>       </xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:if test="string-length($str) &gt; 1">
>         <xsl:call-template name="encode-url">
>           <xsl:with-param name="str" select="substring($str,2)"/>
>         </xsl:call-template>
>       </xsl:if>
>     </xsl:if>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Cheers
> Trevor