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Hello all,

I have some questions about things I am unsure of. I think all the questions are in the easy catagory. Hope at least one of you will take the time to answer the questions below :)

Q1:
I have "taken over" some xsl-stylesheets made by another. In this code there is a good textbook example of recursion as follows:
<xsl:template name="Something">
<xsl:param name="sString"/>
..
<xsl:call-template name="Something"> <!-- without s in template -->
<xsl:with-param name="sString">
<xsl:value-of select="substring($sString, 2)"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:template>

Problem is, I can't find anywhere in the code where "Something" is called (except in the template itself). I would guess that the function/template will never be used in the stylesheet, but is there perhaps another way of invoking a called template than
<xsl:call template name="Something"> ..?

Q2:
Is it possible to load an XSL stylesheet using the command
LoadXML(string) the same way as with an XML document.

I have only seen examples of either
oXML=load(/file) or oXML=loadXML(string)

But only
oXSL=load(/file) not oXSL=loadXML(string)

I have been told that "of course" it is possible - XSL stylesheets are written in XML. But I have not been able to do this despite being (pretty) sure that the stylesheet is correct. I am using msxml3.0 working with VB, if this information is neccesary for solution.

Q3:
I know that the following question should be easily obtained from books on XSL, but what I have read does not seem to stick :(

Unsure of scope when applying/calling
<xsl:template match="This"> and
<xsl:template name="That">
when the variable has been declared in <xsl:template match="First">:

<xsl:template match="First">
 <xsl:variable name="Question" select="'Range'"/>
 <xsl:call template name="That"/>
 <!-- Will "That" know about $Question ? -->
 <xsl:apply-template match="This"/>
 <!-- Will "This" know about $Question ? -->
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="This">
 ..
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="That">
 ..
</xsl:template>

When do I have to pass what I want as parameters and when can I refer to a variable that has been declared not globaly but within an applied template?

Thank you all
Ragulf Pickaxe :)

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