Re: multiple template value input

> all of these work perfectly, except the variable "frank" that is put in as
> the outcomes of all the for-each loops in the first template put together...

which is what I would expect, given your code, but if that's what you
wanted then it's not clear what you do want, so hard to suggest what to
change.



<xsl:template match="INSTANCE" name="joseph">
   <xsl:for-each select="key('tracker', 'Referenced Document')">
        <xsl:copy-of
select="substring-before(substring-after(.,'&quot;\&quot;'), '&quot;')"/>
   </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>


that for-each will make some collection of strings but you can't have
adjacent text nodes in xpath so what is returned is a single text node
with the concatenation. this is as would eb expected in xml, if you need
to have a series of distinct strings you need some xml element structure
somewhere. 


You could
do


<xsl:template match="INSTANCE" name="joseph">
   <xsl:for-each select="key('tracker', 'Referenced Document')">
  <abc>
        <xsl:value-of
select="substring-before(substring-after(.,'&quot;\&quot;'), '&quot;')"/>
   </xsl:for-each>
 </abc>
</xsl:template>


then

<xsl:variable name="frank">
<xsl:call-template name="joseph">
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>


would be a result tree fragment consisting of a root node with a set of
abc element children each containing a text node with your substrings

then you could use xx:node-set($frank)/abc to access each of those
strings,

but depending what you are trying to do you probably don't need an
node-set extension, why make the variable first, why not just do

  <xsl:for-each select="key('tracker', 'Referenced Document')">

  <xsl:call-template 
  your replacement text with input string this:
        <xsl:copy-of
select="substring-before(substring-after(.,'&quot;\&quot;'), '&quot;')"/>
   </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

and so just handle one string at a time?

David

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