The variable item-elements is the root node of a temporary tree, and when
you apply-templates to it, the template rule invoked is the one with
match="/". Use apply-templates select="$var/*", or use a mode.

Note that Saxon 6.5 does not correctly enforce all the restrictions in the
XSLT 1.0 specification, which prevent you using a result tree fragment as a
node-set in this way.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger L. Cauvin [mailto:roger@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 05 June 2004 03:11
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Select on Node List Variable
> 
> I am having trouble understanding the behavior of the 
> following stylesheet.
> I intended for the main template to build a node-list of 
> <item> elements and
> then process them using another template, but instead Saxon 
> 6.5.2 is giving
> me a stack overflow error.  If I change the 'apply-templates' and
> corresponding template to use a mode, it works as intended 
> (outputs 'hello'
> and 'goodbye').
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"
> standalone="no"/>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     <xsl:variable name="item-elements">
>       <xsl:element name="item">hello</xsl:element>
>       <xsl:element name="item">goodbye</xsl:element>
>     </xsl:variable>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="$item-elements"/>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="item">
>     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>     <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
>       <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
>     </xsl:if>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Why the infinite loop?
> 
> --
> Roger L. Cauvin
> roger@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
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