Summary return an xsl:template that matches a child element of your current node as a nodeset

There's probably not much reason to ever do this, but I have had occasions where it was helpful, the idea is that you have a template that matches one element, if your stylesheet is template based perhaps there could be a situation where you want to read the nodeset of what other templates are doing to child elements of a node you're analyzing.

If you run this from a commandline or somewhere you can view the xsl:message output in the templateChild template you should receive the following in the screen:

<tag xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform><xsl:apply-templates></tag>

Additional information

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="node1"> <xsl:call-template name="templateChild"> <xsl:with-param name="pos" select="1"/> </xsl:call-template> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="*" mode="getname"> <xsl:value-of select="name()"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="node2"> <tag><xsl:apply-templates/></tag> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name="templateChild"> <xsl:param name="pos"/> <xsl:variable name="fc"><xsl:apply-templates select="child::*[position() = $pos~" mode="getname"/></xsl:variable> <xsl:param name="childtemplateReader" select="document('')//xsl:template[@match = $fc~/*"/> <xsl:message><xsl:copy-of select="$childtemplateReader"/></xsl:message> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

Further additional information

<?xml version="1.0"?> <node1> <node2>text</node2> </node1>

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