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I wrote - > In other cases, the fact that the context is a single node (in > for-each) vs. a node-set (in apply-templates and call-templates) can > make quite a difference. > Well, that was a little too simplified, I think - it ended up a bit incorrect. The context node is always a single node, but apply-templates operates on an entire node-set (which might happen to contain one node or many - or none). The results get assembled into the right order but may or may not have been processed in that order. The context node for call-templates is the same one as from where it was called. For-each does operate on each node in a node-set, but they are operated on separately, as if they were single, unrelated nodes. With for-each, for example, you can only get a position() of 1 on any one iteration, whereas with apply-templates, position() can give other values (you might be processing node #3 in a set of nodes). Cheers, Tom P XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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