RE: apply-imports and recursion used together

Perhaps you are thinking that xsl:apply-imports passes the parameters on
to the invoked template rule. It doesn't. Apply-imports doesn't allow
parameters to be passed in 1.0, either explicitly or implicitly. This is
fixed in 2.0.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of 
> Tom Whitehouse
> Sent: 05 March 2003 17:15
> To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> Subject: [xsl] apply-imports and recursion used together
>
>
> Can someone explain to me the technical reason behind the following:
>
> The following template exists in an imported stylesheet:
>
> <xsl:template match="FORUMTHREADPOSTS" mode="postblocks">
>       <xsl:param name="skip" select="0"/>
>       <xsl:param name="PostRange" select="concat(($skip + 1), 
> ' - ', ($skip + 
> @COUNT))"/>
>       <xsl:param name="postblockon" 
> select="concat($alt_nowshowing, ' ', 
> $PostRange)"/>
>       <xsl:param name="postblockoff" select="concat($alt_show, ' ', 
> $PostRange)"/>
>       <a 
> href="{$root}F{(_at_)FORUMID}?thread={@THREADID}&amp;skip={$skip}&a
> mp;show={(_at_)COUNT}">
>               <xsl:choose>
>                       <xsl:when test="@SKIPTO = $skip">
>                               <xsl:copy-of select="$postblockon"/>
>                       </xsl:when>
>                       <xsl:otherwise>
>                               <xsl:copy-of select="$postblockoff"/>
>                       </xsl:otherwise>
>               </xsl:choose>
>       </a>
>       <xsl:if test="($skip + @COUNT) &lt; @TOTALPOSTCOUNT">
>               <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="postblocks">
>                       <xsl:with-param name="skip" 
> select="$skip + @COUNT"/>
>               </xsl:apply-templates>
>       </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
>
> The template works in the way I would expect it. However if 
> an apply-imports 
> template is used in the including template I get an infinite loop:
>
> <xsl:template match="FORUMTHREADPOSTS" mode="postblocks">
>    <xsl:apply-imports/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> reagrds
>
> Tom
>
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