This works fine.

  <xsl:call-template name="myTemplate">
         <xsl:with-param name="arguments" select="preceding-sibling::*">
         </xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>

But this doesn't:

<xsl:call-template name="myTemplate">
         <xsl:with-param name="arguments">
              <xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::*" />
         </xsl:with-param>
  </xsl:call-template>

Why ? How do I use value-of to set the value of a parameter ?

xsl:value-of generates a (single) text node. Depending on the parameter,
that may be okay (or maybe not), even if the cases when a text node is good
but a simple string is not even better are fairly rare.

Don't forget in the 2nd option that it's a text node child of a
document node, whereas in the first option (using select) it's
sequence type is element()*  (i think)

<xsl:with-param name="arguments">
  <xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::*" />
</xsl:with-param>

Cheers,
Wendell

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