> I should have written "template composition" instead of stylesheet 
> composition. Than it would be possible to save the result of one 
> template in a temporary tree (variable) and apply another template on 
> the result.


That you can do easily in XSLT2, and in moset implementations of XSLT1
have a node-set() extension function that also allows this.

David

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