It sounds as if you're supplying an element node for a parameter where a
document node is expected. 

Can't debug this for you without seeing all the relevant parts of the
stylesheet.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bryan rasmussen [mailto:rasmussen.bryan@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 May 2007 17:24
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  declaring variable as document node, tunnel it 
> comes out as untyped
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm tunneling a variable tree2
> 
> it is declared as follows:
> <xsl:param name="tree2" as="document-node()" 
> tunnel="yes"><ignore/></xsl:param>
> 
> 'trying to apply templates on this causes an error in saxon 
> value has type element (...xpath-datatypes) untyped:
> 
> I have removed all other mentions of the variable in the 
> stylesheet so it is not getting retyped anywhere.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bryan Rasmussen