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> Calling a template from a function within an XPath expression is not a good > idea. It's important that functions should have no side-effects, and > templates normally have the side-effect of writing to the result tree. > That's why I made saxon:function a distinct construct from xsl:template. probably it needs to be a different construct anyway so you can more naturally have positional arguments and return values other than node sets. However If you did try to merge with named templates I wouldn't have thought the above would be a problem, as I'd have expected foo:named-template-as-function() to act like $x where x is some internal hidden variable, essentially set by <xsl:variable name="x"> <xsl:call-template name="foo:named-template-as-template"> ..... David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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