> i changed xx in select="xx:node-set($index)/*" to xmlns and 
> changed the 
> select function slightly to match the brackets  <xsl:for-each 
> select="document($nsindex/*[name()=$catname])/root/child::*"> 
> . It says 
> 'Namspace " does not contain any functions ', does anyone 
> know what this 
> means?

You need to bind the namespace prefix xx to a namespace that contains
the function with local-name "node-set". This depends on the XSLT
processor you are using. It looks as if you bound it to the null
namespace, and the null namespace does not contain any functions.

Michael Kay


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