Rob, does the following template demonstrate your assertion? It runs fine on my latest build (from last Wednesday or Thursday, I think). Can you try it with whatever version you are running?
If it works, it would help a lot if you would build a *small* stylesheet and XML source that demonstrates the issue. Maybe you can play around with the one below to reproce it. I suspect that the problem may be something else than you said, but it may be a bug in the latest developer version or the latest released version, or I may be misunderstanding something about what you said. <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version= "1.0"> <xsl:output indent="yes"/> <xsl:template name="yada"> <xsl:for-each select="//center"> <xsl:apply-templates select="ancestor::*"/> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="/"> <out> <xsl:variable name="foo"> <xsl:for-each select="//center"> <xsl:apply-templates select="ancestor::*"/> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:variable> <xsl:copy-of select="$foo"/> <xsl:variable name="foo2"> <xsl:call-template name="yada"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:copy-of select="$foo2"/> </out> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="*"> <xsl:value-of select="name(.)"/>: <xsl:copy/> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> XML I am using to process it: <?xml version="1.0"?> <far-north> <north> <near-north> <far-west/> <west/> <near-west/> <center> <near-south> <south> <far-south/> </south> </near-south> </center> <near-east/> <east/> <far-east/> </near-north> </north> </far-north> Your results should look like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <out>far-north: <far-north/> north: <north/> near-north: <near-north/> far-north: <far-north/> north: <north/> near-north: <near-north/> </out> -scott Rob Tice <rob.tice@fdgroup To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .com> cc: (bcc: Scott Boag/Cambridge/IBM) Subject: xsl-for-each 07/09/2002 02:47 AM Please respond to xalan-dev Just a general posting as I am not sure if it is a bug or a feature of xsl. Using the latest xalan (don't know about the behaviour in previous versions) I cannot wrap an xsl:for-each as a variable e.g. <xsl:variable name="test"><xsl:for-each ......etc... ></xsl:for-each></xsl:variable> I get a 'cannot convert tree fragment to node-list exception'. However, if I put the 'for each' in a template I can wrap the return from this template in a variable. This seems inconsistent. Any comments Rob Tice
