XSLT - Passing nodes as a parameter to templates

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im scratching my head here, hopefully someone can help me out.

Im trying to pass a set of nodes as a parameter to an xslt template. thats about it.

   <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>   

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="$currentPage/@level=3">
                <xsl:call-template name="test">
                    <xsl:with-param name="nodes">
                        <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/../node" />
                    </xsl:with-param>
                </xsl:call-template>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:call-template name="test">
                    <xsl:with-param name="nodes">
                        <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/../../node" />
                    </xsl:with-param>
                </xsl:call-template>
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template name="test">
        <xsl:param name="nodes"></xsl:param>
        <xsl:value-of select="count($nodes)" />
    </xsl:template>

 

It errors on trying to print out the count of $nodes. Due to this i cant loop through it and do what i need to do. However just outputting $nodes within the test function does output values to the page. What am i doing wrong? :S

 

Thanks!

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://our.umbraco.com/forum/10317-xslt-passing-nodes-as-a-parameter-to-templates