Paul Levin writes:
 >     I would like to see the ability for a named template to either
 > return a value (which could be assigned to a variable in the calling
 > template) 

just do it. no need for any extra features in XSLT.

  <xsl:variable name="foo">
    <xsl:call-template name="bar"/>
  </xsl:variable>

what "bar" does will be in the variable $foo

sebastian


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