Re: [xslt] [BUG?] xslt:variable to represent some elements issue

[Mark Vakoc <thevakoc-xml yahoo com>]

> 
> This looks really neat, and would be ideal, HOWEVER, I can't qualify the 
> "result" variable as "$result/Redirect" or whatever would look like an node 
> access. In fact, the global variable is *not* a string, it's an element 
> template, exactly as the XSLT specification has declared (I read it that way 
> at least);

No, it's a result tree fragment: 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Result-Tree-Fragments

> 
> So now, is this a bug of libxslt's xpath or XSLT implementation regarding 
> xsl:variable element templates?
> 
> If not, how do I reach my goal then?

libxslt is following the spec correctly.  Use the non-standard exsl:node-set()
to convert a result tree fragment to a node-set.