creating an element at runtime to pass into a template

[Biff Malone]

I'm creating an element at run time with the following code

<xsl:variable name="myElement">
<xsl:element name="abc">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:call-template name="myTemplate">
<xsl:with-param select="$myElement">
</xsl:call-template>

But XML Spy gives me a "Error in XPath expression, Cannot use result
tree fragment"
I can do a <xsl:value-of select="$myElement" /> but I can't pass the
newly created element as a parameter.

Does anyone know of a solution?

[Martin Honnen]

Biff Malone wrote:

I'm creating an element at run time with the following code

<xsl:variable name="myElement">
<xsl:element name="abc">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:call-template name="myTemplate">
<xsl:with-param select="$myElement">
</xsl:call-template>

But XML Spy gives me a "Error in XPath expression, Cannot use result
tree fragment"
I can do a <xsl:value-of select="$myElement" /> but I can't pass the
newly created element as a parameter.

Does anyone know of a solution?

This is a known restriction in XSLT 1.0, however many XSLT processors
provide an extension function to convert a result tree fragment to a
node set, see
http://www.exslt.org/exsl/functions/node-set/index.html
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/