RE: Re: apply-templates abnormality???

Dimitre,

Thank you so much for the helpful and explanatory response.  It not only
works now, but I understand why it didn't work before.  :-)  I really
appreciate your time and assistance!!!

Best Regards,
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitre Novatchev [mailto:dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:28 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Re: apply-templates abnormality??? 
> 
> 
> > I am trying to create data in my stylesheet and apply a template as
> > if
> > the data came from the source document.
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> >         <xsl:variable name="add-apply-button">
> >             <xsl:element name="button">
> >                 <xsl:element name="file">APPLY_BUTTON</xsl:element>
> >                 <xsl:element name="result">APPLY</xsl:element>
> >             </xsl:element>
> >         </xsl:variable>
> >         <xsl:apply-templates select="$add-apply-button">
> >             <xsl:with-param
> > name="submit-form">AddEditView</xsl:with-param>
> >         </xsl:apply-templates>
> > 
> > I want this to simulate the following xml data:
> > 
> >         <button>
> >             <file>APPLY_BUTTON</file>
> >             <result>APPLY</result>
> >         </button>
> > 
> > It works except for one major problem.  The param "submit-form" does
> > not
> > seem to get set when the "button" template is applied.  The "button"
> > template is getting invoked and it is acting as if the data 
> came from
> > the source document.  The problem is the param.  It is an empty
> > string
> > even though I am using with-param and giving it a value.
> > 
> > I am using Saxon 6.3.  Does this seem like a problem with my XSLT
> > code
> > or with Saxon?
> 
> 
> It is with your code, and obviously Saxon 6.3 implements XSLT 1.1,
> otherwise you'd have an error reported on your attempt to use the RTF
> (Result Tree Fragment) as a node-set.
> 
> The problem is that an RTF, when converted to a node-set is a separate
> xml document, so the following code:
> 
> >         <xsl:apply-templates select="$add-apply-button">
> >             <xsl:with-param
> > name="submit-form">AddEditView</xsl:with-param>
> >         </xsl:apply-templates>
> > 
> 
> will apply a template to the root (/) of the document, to which
> $add-apply-button evaluates.
> 
> Probably your template (if any) matching / does not care for any
> parameters, nor it passes them down to any templates applied 
> on /node()
> 
> The solution is to replace the above with:
> 
>          <xsl:apply-templates select="$add-apply-button/*">
>              <xsl:with-param
>  name="submit-form">AddEditView</xsl:with-param>
>          </xsl:apply-templates>
> 
> in case you're using an XSLT 1.0 complient XSLT processor, you'll have
> to use vendor:node-set($add-apply-button)/*
> 
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> 
>  
> 
> 
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