Re: [xsl] accessing paramters as node-sets

["M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marcus,

I'm assuming by passing in you are referring to passing in a parameter using the 
<xsl:with-param.../> child element of <xsl:apply-templates...> and 
<xsl:call-template...>? If so, once the variable has been converted to a 
node-set and passed as a parameter to another template then the need to convert 
it to a node-set doesnt exist because it already is a node-set.

Now if by passing in you are referring to the processor passing in the value 
from the command line or by creating a transformation process within your 
application code and passing it in through whatever mechanism is exposed to you 
to do this from your code-base (you didn't say what transformer you are using or 
what language/platform you are developing this with and there are to many 
possibilities to make a guess) there's a good chance that the processor already 
sees a node-set and therefore trying to convert it to a node-set again provides 
no value to you.

If you can provide more details as to which of the above solutions you are 
referring to, the processor you are using, and if necessary the development 
language and platform you are using to instantiate the transformation process 
then more help can be provided :)

Best regards,

<M:D/>

Marcus B. Irven wrote:

> currently i'm accessing a xsl variable such as:
>
> <xsl:variable name="test">
> <some>xml</some>
> </xsl:varialbe>
>
> using exsl:node-set($test)
>
> now I want to pass in the same xml as a paramter such as:
>
> <xsl:param name="test2"/>
>
> and then access it with exsl:node-set($test2) but it doesnt work.  Is this
> possible?
>
> Marcus