Is there a way to apply the template to the result <xsl:call-template name="temp2" /> in index.xsl?
Yes, this is called multi-pass processing . The only peculiarity is that in XSLT 1.0 you must apply the implementation-dependent extension function xxx:node-set() to any intermediate result that in the general case will have the infamous RTF (type of result tree) and therefore it is necessary will convert to a regular tree.
Here is a complete example of multiprocessing (I use xsl:apply-templates , not xsl:call-template , but you can freely change this example to use named templates and xsl:call-template instead),
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ext="http://exslt.org/common" exclude-result-prefixes="ext"> <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/*"> <xsl:variable name="vrtfPass1"> <xsl:apply-templates select="num"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:apply-templates mode="pass2" select="ext:node-set($vrtfPass1)/*"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="num"> <num><xsl:value-of select="2* ."/></num> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="num" mode="pass2"> <num><xsl:value-of select=". * ."/></num> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
when this conversion is applied to the following XML document :
<nums> <num>01</num> <num>02</num> <num>03</num> <num>04</num> <num>05</num> <num>06</num> <num>07</num> <num>08</num> <num>09</num> <num>10</num> </nums>
the desired result (the content of any num elements doubles in the first pass, then the square in the second pass) is created :
<num>4</num> <num>16</num> <num>36</num> <num>64</num> <num>100</num> <num>144</num> <num>196</num> <num>256</num> <num>324</num> <num>400</num>
II. In XSLT 2.0
The "RTF type" was canceled, so it’s much easier to specify multi-pass processing , which becomes almost indistinguishable from the functional composition, as shown in the following equivalent conversion:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:my="my:my" exclude-result-prefixes="my"> <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/*"> <xsl:sequence select="my:squareAll(my:doubleAll(*))"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:function name="my:doubleAll" as="element()*"> <xsl:param name="pElems" as="element()*"/> <xsl:for-each select="$pElems"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:sequence select=". + ."/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:function> <xsl:function name="my:squareAll" as="element()*"> <xsl:param name="pElems" as="element()*"/> <xsl:for-each select="$pElems"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:sequence select=". * ."/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:function> </xsl:stylesheet>
when this conversion is applied to the same XML document (above), the same correct result is obtained :
<num>4</num> <num>16</num> <num>36</num> <num>64</num> <num>100</num> <num>144</num> <num>196</num> <num>256</num> <num>324</num> <num>400</num>