RE: [xsl] Passing document fragments as nodsets

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm having a bit of a struggle with passing a subset of nodes 
> around in a xsl file. I have extracted a set of nodes that 
> follow a XPath rule where an attribute is set, and am paaaing 
> this a a parameter to a template.
> 
> <xsl:with-param name="image-nodes">
>     <xsl:value-of select="xalan:nodeset(.)/image[@position = 
> 'left']" /> </xsl:with-param>
> 

You don't need to copy the nodeset into a result tree fragment and you
don't need to convert the result tree fragment back to a node-set.

Just write:

<xsl:with-param name="image-nodes">
                select="image[@position = 'left']" /> 

Michael Kay


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