Hi guys,

I execute recursive calls like this:

<xsl:template name="recursionTemplate">

<xsl:param name="counter" select="1"/>
<xsl:param name="vehCount" select="1"/>
<xsl:param name="ref"/>
<xsl:if test="$counter &lt;= $vehCount">

<fo:table-cell border="solid 0px black"
text-align="left">
<fo:block font-size="8pt">
<fo:block font-size="8pt">
<xsl:value-of select="java:getName($ref,$counter)"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>

<xsl:call-template name="recursionTemplate">
<xsl:with-param name="counter" select="$counter + 1"/>
<xsl:with-param name="vehCount" select="$vehCount"/>
<xsl:with-param name="ref" select="$ref"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

and I call the template like this:

<xsl:call-template name="recursionTemplate">
<xsl:with-param name="vehCount" select="$vehicleCount"/>
<xsl:with-param name="ref" select="$helperClassRef"/>
</xsl:call-template>

There are several other methods which I will be calling getEngineCapacity(), getMileage() on each vehicle by iterating over them. I do not want to have separate recursion template for each method that I want to call since that will lead to a lot of redundant code.

I learned that I cannot pass the method name dynamically and call it in the recursion template.

What is the best way to achieve this? One thought that came to my mind is defining the method call in a template and passing this template to the recursion template. If this is possible what would be the syntax for it?

Is this XSLT 1.0 or XSLT 2.0?

You might take a look at Dimitre Novatchev's FXSL library which provides lots of powerful mechanisms for higher-order functional programming in XSLT. It has variants for XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0.

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Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer\'s Reference

This is XSLT 1.0. I will take a look at that and see if it suits my need. Thanks Michael.