If you needed to call apply-templates using a function call (say as
part of an xpath) any reason why this wouldn't be fine:

<xsl:function name="f:apply-templates" as="node()*">
    <xsl:param name="context" as="node()*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$context"/>
</xsl:function>

with:

<xsl:sequence select="f:apply-templates(child::node())"/>

(ignoring modes and params etc)

Seems ok to me...


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