I cannot reproduce your problem.

This transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
 xmlns:scrdt="urn:reval-com:scripts:datatypes">

 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="data">
    <xsl:call-template name="callInit">
      <xsl:with-param name="itemNode" select="items"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template name="callInit">
    <xsl:param name="itemNode"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="scrdt:init($itemNode)"/>
  </xsl:template>
  <msxsl:script language="JScript" implements-prefix="scrdt"><![CDATA[
     function init(itemNode)
     {
     if( !itemNode.length) return "";

     var val = itemNode.item(0).selectSingleNode('book');

     //var val = itemNode.item(0).firstChild;

     if(val!=null)
     return val.text;

     return "Error";
     }

]]></msxsl:script>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when applied on your source.xml (corrected to be well-formed!):

<data>
  <items>
    <book>My book Title</book>
    <pencil>My pencil length</pencil>
    <pen>My pen color</pen>
  </items>
</data>


Produces the wanted result:

My book Title


both with MSXML4 and MSXML3.


=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

"Murali Korrapati" <murali.korrapati@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D856C70D80A2394F990DCDBF52F6E6CB02F519@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I am sorry. It was my bad. I cut my whole xsl to make it easy to post
here. My actual xsl is
>
>  <xsl:template match="data">
>   <xsl:call-template name="callInit">
>   <xsl:with-param name="itemNode" select="Items"/>
>   </xsl:call-template>
>  </xsl:template>
>
> instead of
> > <xsl:template match="/">
> > <xsl:call-template name="callInit">
> > <xsl:with-param name="itemNode" select="."/>
> > </xsl:call-template>
> > </xsl:template>
>
> and actual xml is :
>
> <data>
> <Items>
> <book>My book Title</book>
> <pencil>My pencil length</pencil>
> <pen>My pen color</pen>
> </items>
> </data>
>
> instead of
> > <Items>
> > <book>My book Title</book>
> > <pencil>My pencil length</pencil>
> > <pen>My pen color</pen>
> > </Items>
>
> but javascript is same
> > function init(itemNode)
> > {
> > if( !itemNode.length) return "";
> >
> > var val = itemNode.item(0).selectSingleNode('book');
> >
> > //var val = itemNode.item(0).firstChild;
> >
> > if(val!=null)
> > return val.text;
> >
> > return "Error";
> > }
>
>  sorry for not giving clear information.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion, but
>
> So I don't think I can change it to
>
> <xsl:with-param name="itemNode" select="Items/*"/>
>
> b'cos passes down all individual nodes in <Items/>
>
> So any other leads??
>
>
> peace,
> ~Mur
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitre Novatchev [mailto:dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 4:51 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Re: msxsl:script and selectSingleNode problem
>
>
> Your Javascript function is:
>
> > function init(itemNode)
> > {
> > if( !itemNode.length) return "";
> >
> > var val = itemNode.item(0).selectSingleNode('book');
> >
> > //var val = itemNode.item(0).firstChild;
> >
> > if(val!=null)
> > return val.text;
> >
> > return "Error";
> > }
>
>
> and it is called from:
>
> > <xsl:template match="/">
> > <xsl:call-template name="callInit">
> > <xsl:with-param name="itemNode" select="."/>
> > </xsl:call-template>
> > </xsl:template>
>
> This statement:
>
> > var val = itemNode.item(0).selectSingleNode('book');
>
> evaluates the XPath expression "book" and assigns the result to the
variable
> "val".
>
> because "itemNode" is the root node (/), the XPath expression will not
> select anything. The only element child of the root is the "items"
element.
>
> Change:
>
> > <xsl:with-param name="itemNode" select="."/>
>
> to:
>
>   <xsl:with-param name="itemNode" select="*"/>
>
>
> Now you'll get the wanted result.
>
>
>
> =====
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
>
>
> "Murali Korrapati" <murali.korrapati@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:D856C70D80A2394F990DCDBF52F6E6CB02F518@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> >    I am getting this strange problem. Let me give my xml and script
> function before I explain my problem.
> >
> >    my xml:
> >
> > <Items>
> > <book>My book Title</book>
> > <pencil>My pencil length</pencil>
> > <pen>My pen color</pen>
> > </items>
> >
> >
> >   my xslt:
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns=""
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
> xmlns:scrdt="urn:reval-com:scripts:datatypes">
> > <xsl:template match="/">
> > <xsl:call-template name="callInit">
> > <xsl:with-param name="itemNode" select="."/>
> > </xsl:call-template>
> > </xsl:template>
> > <xsl:template name="callInit">
> > <xsl:param name="itemNode"/>
> > <xsl:value-of select="scrdt:init($itemNode)"/>
> > </xsl:template>
> >       <msxsl:script language="JScript"
implements-prefix="scrdt"><![CDATA[
> > function init(itemNode)
> > {
> > if( !itemNode.length) return "";
> >
> > var val = itemNode.item(0).selectSingleNode('book');
> >
> > //var val = itemNode.item(0).firstChild;
> >
> > if(val!=null)
> > return val.text;
> >
> > return "Error";
> > }
> > ]]></msxsl:script>
> >
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> >
> >      So my problem is, when ever I transform my xml with this template,
it
> is printing "Error". It seems like it is not able to get to "book" node
when
> I use selectSingleNode("book"). But variety is when ever I access it as
> .firstChild, it is recognizing  the node  and printing the correct value.
> >
> >      I have no idea what is going on there. Any leads will be
appreciated.
> >
> >
> > ~Mur
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
>
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