Simply don't specify any type for the $FOO variable:

 <xsl:variable name="FOO">
  <page>Page number 1</page>
  <page>Page number 2</page>
  <page>Page number 3</page>
  <page>Page number 4</page>
  <page>Page number 5</page>
  <page>Page number 6</page>
  <page>Page number 7</page>
 </xsl:variable>

The type by default is a document node, and in this case the provided
transformation produces the expected result.


Cheers,
Dimitre

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Jorge . chocolate.camera@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Try
>>   as="document-node()"
>
> It won't work:
>
>     Error at xsl:variable on line 5 column 51 of stylesheet.xsl:
>       XTTE0570: Required item type of value of variable $FOO is
>       document-node(); supplied value has item type element()
>     Failed to compile stylesheet. 1 error detected.
>
> I use document-node() as the type of a variable when importing an
> external XML file into the variable. But in this case, I write the
> contents of the variable in the stylesheet itself.
> 



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Dimitre Novatchev
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