Re: [xsl] 'apply-templates' on parameter of 'call-template'

[Angus McIntyre <angus@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:26 -0400 10.04.2004, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> You've made a mistake that many of my students do when they rush:
>
> > <xsl:template name="test">
> > ...
> > <xsl:template name="matchable">
>
> You want match= not name=

You know, I've been making that mistake on average twice a day for 
the past six months or so. So much for my theories about learning 
from experience.

Thank you for pointing that out.

Just for the record, this works flawlessly on Xalan-J, LibXSLT and 
Saxon (invoked through TestXSLT), although the time to compile the 
stylesheet on the first attempt is noticeably longer with Xalan-J and 
Saxon than with most other stylesheets I've tested. Sablotron, on the 
other hand, doesn't like it at all. A cursory trawl through the logs 
makes it look as if something in 'expat' is blowing up (this is under 
MacOS X 10.3.3). I guess this technique, while presumably legal, is 
not necessarily safe for applications that are agnostic about the 
exact XSLT processor in use. I get the feeling that while it's 
formally correct, it may be slightly 'bleeding edge' with respect to 
certain processor implementations.

Thanks again to all who responded,

Angus
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