> but this doesn't work, as it doesn't the following:

No. the template name has to be fixed.

In C, would you expect to be able to go
x = 2 $op 3

where $op was a string containing either "+" or "*" ?

Some languages do allow higher order operations where function names are
determined at run time, but XSLT isn't one of them.

David
 

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