RE: Create a node set and then apply a template to it

There are no facilities in standard XSLT 1.0 to create nodes and then apply
templates to them. You can create nodes in a "result tree fragment", but the
things you are allowed to do with  them are very limited.

However, all the major XSLT processors offer an extension function called
xx:node-set() which fills this gap.

Some processors, such as Saxon, also have an extension (saxon:tokenize() in
this case) which does the job directly.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of paul morgan
> Sent: 27 April 2002 13:59
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Create a node set and then apply a template to it
>
>
> I'm just looking into using XSLT (translation: clueless) for
> a project I'm working on, and I'm wondering if it's possible
> to create a node set via a template and then apply some other
> template to it?  Since I don't have all of the terminology
> down yet, let me illustrate via an example.
>
> Given the text node, "out of luck", I'd like to end up with
> the node set containing the following elements:
>
>     <WORD>out</WORD>
>     <WORD>of</WORD>
>     <WORD>luck</WORD>
>
> and to that node set I'd like to apply a template.  Looking
> around it seems as if a lot of people have had a similar sort
> of question, but (in my current state of ignorance) I've been
> unable to directly apply their concerns to my problem.
>
> Any help or pointers to documentation would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> :Paul
>
>
>
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