--- "Karl J. Stubsjoen" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need a template to return a subset of XML from the
> xml source.  I'm trying
> to populate a variable with this information.  How
> can I do this?
> Example:
> 
> <A>
>     <B>
>         <ASDF/>
>         <QWEA/>
>         <FEASI/>
>     </B>
>     <C/>
> </A>
> 

In XSLT there is no equivalent of "return" as in
conventional languages. 
> 
> So, a template that will return (as an example) <B>
> and its subset of data.
> Something like
> 
> <xsl:template name="get_subset_xml">
>     .... select the <b> node
> </xsl:template>
> 
> More importantly, how do I assign a variable to this
> new subset?
> So:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="some_subset"
> select="get_subset_xml"/>
> 
> where $some_suset is:
>     <B>
>         <ASDF/>
>         <QWEA/>
>         <FEASI/>
>     </B>
> 
> 
> Is this possible?
> Karl

It's possible, of course.
If you want to use named template to fetch the subset,
you must wrap the template call by xsl:variable, like
this:

<xsl:variable name="subset">
  <xsl:call-template name="get_subset_xml"/>
</xsl:variable>

Then you'll be able to retrieve the value by
converting the temporary tree to nodeset(some XSLT
processors explicitly perform the conversion, e.g.,
Saxon) by using EXSLT's node-set() function or
something similar(about all XSLT processors have such
kind of extension function).
But there is a simpler way to retrieve the subset
without calling a template; just write:

<xsl:variable name="subset" select="/A/B"/>

Regards,
Armen
> 
> 
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