Doing a double-pass in XSL?

Question

Is it possible to store the output of an XSL transformation in some sort of variable and then perform an additional transformation on the variable\'s contents? (All in one X

Answer 1

Yes, with XSLT 2.0 it is easy. With XSLT 1.0 you can of course also use modes and store a temporary result in a variable the same way as in XSLT 2.0 but the variable is then a result tree fragment, to be able to process it further with apply-templates you need to use an extension function like exsl:node-set on the variable.