There is no "select" attribute on xsl:call-template. If this isn't being
reported as an error in your stylesheet then you need to raise a bug report
on xsltproc - it's a conformance requirement that such errors be reported.

The only way to change the context node when calling xsl:call-template is

<xsl:for-each select="$top">
  <xsl:call-template name="xyz"/.
</xsl:for-each>

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Fausak [mailto:lgfausak@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 June 2008 14:22
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: lgfausak@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  apply-templates vs. call-template problem
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using xsltproc on freebsd. I've encountered a problem 
> that I think is because I don't understand xsl/xml 
> namespaces?  Anyway, I got my xsl stylesheet to work below 
> using the template:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>        xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
>        xmlns:set="http://exslt.org/sets"
>        xmlns:regexp="http://exslt.org/regular-expressions"
>        xmlns:exslt="http://exslt.org/common"
>        xsl:extension-element-prefixes="str set regexp exslt"
>        >
> <xsl:output method="text" indent="no"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/schema">
>                                <xsl:call-template name="create-groups"
> select="."/>
>                                <xsl:call-template 
> name="create-partitions" select="."/>
>                                <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="tables/table"/>
>                                <xsl:call-template 
> name="table-permissions" select="."/>
>                                <xsl:call-template name="table-indices"
> select="."/>
>                               <xsl:call-template name="oid-indices"
> select="$top/schema"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> I then decided it would be nice to just call each template if 
> a command line flag was specified, but, I can't get it to 
> work for the call-template variety.  The apply-templates 
> seems to work if I create an anchor $top variable to 'reselect'....
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>        xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
>        xmlns:set="http://exslt.org/sets"
>        xmlns:regexp="http://exslt.org/regular-expressions"
>        xmlns:exslt="http://exslt.org/common"
>        xsl:extension-element-prefixes="str set regexp exslt"
>        >
> <xsl:param name="actions"
> select="string('groups,partitions,tables,tablepermissions,tabl
> eindices,oidindices')"/>
> <xsl:output method="text" indent="no"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/schema">
>        <xsl:variable name="top" select="."/>
>        <xsl:for-each select="str:tokenize($actions, ',')">
>                <xsl:choose>
>                        <xsl:when test=". = 'groups'">
>                                <xsl:text>got groups&#xa;</xsl:text>
>                                <xsl:call-template name="create-groups"
> select="."/>
>                        </xsl:when>
>                        <xsl:when test=". = 'partitions'">
>                                <xsl:text>got 
> partitions&#xa;</xsl:text>
>                                <xsl:call-template 
> name="create-partitions" select="$top"/>
>                        </xsl:when>
>                        <xsl:when test=". = 'tables'">
>                                <xsl:text>got tables&#xa;</xsl:text>
>                                <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="$top/tables/table" mode='tables'/>
>                        </xsl:when>
>                        <xsl:when test=". = 'tablepermissions'">
>                                <xsl:text>got 
> tablepermissions&#xa;</xsl:text>
>                                <xsl:call-template 
> name="table-permissions" select="."/>
>                        </xsl:when>
>                        <xsl:when test=". = 'tableindices'">
>                                <xsl:text>got 
> tableindices&#xa;</xsl:text>
>                                <xsl:call-template name="table-indices"
> select="."/>
>                        </xsl:when>
>                        <xsl:when test=". = 'oidindices'">
>                                <xsl:text>got 
> oidindices&#xa;</xsl:text>
>                                <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="$top/tables/table" mode='oid-indices'/>
> <!--                            <xsl:call-template name="oid-indices"
> select="$top/schema"/> -->
>                        </xsl:when>
>                        <xsl:otherwise>
>                                <xsl:message terminate="yes"> 
> UNKNOWN command line argument: <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>                                </xsl:message>
>                        </xsl:otherwise>
>                </xsl:choose>
>        </xsl:for-each>
> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> In this example just the 'apply-templates' calls work.  The 
> 'call-template'
> fires, but I can't seem to 'select' the /schema tree.
> 
> In both cases my xml data looks like:
> 
> <schema name="ad_schema" database="ad_voip"> <tables>
>   <table name="at_address" perm="superuser">
>     <comments>
>       Address
>       This is an address record.
>       It is normally included in other record's views.
>     </comments>
>     <fields>
> <field is_nullable="1" data_type="text" name="ac_b" >
>         <comments>
>           Brand ID
>           This address belongs to this brand.
>         </comments>
>       </field>
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> ---greg
> 
> 
> --
> Greg Fausak
> greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx