Re: alternative for modes

  I did not meant it that way: imagine you have to parse a certain node 'x' (+
  his children) more than 1 time in a stylesheet: each time the parsing of 'x'
  is exactly the same, but the parsing of 'x''s children is different. So for
  each time I should call the same template for 'x', but that template should
  call a different template for his children.

Ah what you want then is that the different processing of the children
are in different modes, but that your generic template acts like the
default templates and is "node neutral" in that it works in any mode and
calls apply-templates on the mode that it was called from rather tahn a
mode hard-wired into the code of the template.

Unfortunately this is not available in XSLT1 but (as you have found) it
is seen as a requirement and XSLT2 draft has a more flexible mode
arrangement that addresses this need (but XSLT2 specification is still
just a draft, although saxon7 implements much of it)

So in XSLT1 then something like you have is reasonable I think.

David

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