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RE: Can I access elements in the output tree?

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> Would it be possible to insert elements in the output tree 
> and subsequently access them? If so, would there be any restrictions?

You can create a result tree fragment and then access it using the
node-set() extension function that comes with most popular XSLT processors.
You can't access data once it's written to the final result tree, though.
(There's a good reason for this, most processors don't actually construct
the result tree in memory, they serialize each node as soon as it is
written). But that's not a restriction, you write:

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="xxx">
   ... normal processing ...
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:apply-templates select="xx:node-set($xxx)" mode="phase2"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="$xxx"/>
</xsl:template>

This has the effect you describe.

Mike Kay 


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