select="somestring" looks for an element called "somestring". I suspect you
want

select="'somesstring'"

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mlachak, Michael (SAIC) [mailto:Michael.Mlachak@xxxxxx] 
> Sent: 07 November 2005 16:18
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Call Template processing problem
> 
> I am trying to call a template with 2 parameters and am having some
> problems.  The second parameter of the following call always 
> returns an
> empty string.  I am using MSXML.  Here is the appropriate code.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> 	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>    <xsl:output method="html" version="4.0" indent="yes"/>
> 
>    <xsl:template name="test">
>        <xsl:param name="sstr" />
>        <xsl:param name="length1" />
>          (<xsl:value-of select="$length1"/>)---[<xsl:value-of
> select="$sstr"/>]
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>    <!--============================  Start of TAB
> ============================-->
>    <xsl:template match="/">
> 		<xsl:call-template name="test">
> 			<xsl:with-param name="length1" select="2" />
> 			<xsl:with-param name="sstr" select="somestring"
> />
> 		</xsl:call-template>
>    </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Any help or guidance would be appreciated.