Re: [xsl] Convert apply-templates to call-template?

[Phillip B Oldham <phillip.oldham@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> You'd need to say what the problem you were having, and what exactly you
> meant bu using call-tempate. You need to somehow traverse the input tree
> in order to get the input, apply-templates does that, call-template does
> not, the current node never changes on a call-template.
>  

Ah, I didn't know that.

> Your question could be trivially answered by having a named template
> that you call with call-template, that just uses apply-templates to
> traverse the tree. 

Thats exactly what I'm looking for.

The app I'm using returns a very basic XML tree based on the request 
URL. Most of the time the main section of the document, the part that 
requires translation, is a nodeset showing the url as an attribute, 
containing lots of <item> tags which in turn contain what is essentially 
RDBMS row data, eg:

<container url="/Departments/ViewAll">
   <item>
      <id>1</id>
      <name>Managers</name>
      <lh>1</lh>
      <rh>6</rh>
   </item>
   <item>
      <id>2</id>
      <name>Supervisors</name>
      <lh>2</lh>
      <rh>5</rh>
   </item>
   <item>
      <id>3</id>
      <name>Employees</name>
      <lh>3</lh>
      <rh>4</rh>
   </item>
   <item>
      <id>4</id>
      <name>Directors</name>
      <lh>7</lh>
      <rh>8</rh>
   </item>
</container>

The data in the item tags changes dependent on the URL, but basically 
they always output <item> tags.

I'm currently passing the item nodeset to a template using 
<xsl:call-template /> based on the url, which is working fine for other 
parts of the system. The Celko technique is being used to store a BTree 
in SQL, which I need to reproduce based on the lh and rh tags.

I don't think <xsl:apply-templates /> will work, because I can't match 
the <item> tag as there are other parts of the app which use it.

Any advice would be great.