Thanks Andrew, that looks exactly like what I'm looking for, but I get a big
ole error:

Expected token ')', found ','.
//blog[author_id = ($AuthorId -->,<--  author_id)[1]][category_id = ($...

Any ideas?

I'm not sure what ($AuthorId, author_id) is meant to do?

K

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 August 2009 11:47
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Avoiding multiple "apply-templates" by creating one
variable for the clauses. Is it possible?

How about:

<xsl:apply-templates select="//blog[author_id = ($AuthorId,
author_id)[1]][category_id = ($CategoryId, category_id)[1]]"/>

...although there might be a nicer way.  Even so, sometimes its better
to have more readable code spread over a few lines than one that takes
you a few goes to understand what it's doing :)