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I am trying to call fn:transform from XPath, providing the result of a parse-json call as both the initial-match-selection and the global-context-item.

When the XSLT used has an xsl:template match=".", the template seems to be applied using apply-templates, however, when the template additionally has xsl:template match="." name="xsl:initial-template", the template is executed but I get an error about the focus being absent.

With the Java version of Saxon it appears that my combination of options to fn:transform always results in the expected apply-templates invocation, I think Saxon-JS 2's behaviour is a bug.

Javascript code showing the error is

require('saxon-js');

const xslt = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  version="3.0"
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  xmlns:map="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map"
  exclude-result-prefixes="#all"
  expand-text="yes">

  <xsl:output method="adaptive"/>

  <xsl:template match="." name="xsl:initial-template">
    <result>
      <xsl:comment>Run with {system-property('xsl:product-name')} {system-property('xsl:product-version')}</xsl:comment>
      <xsl:sequence select="."/>
    </result>
  </xsl:template>
  
</xsl:stylesheet>`;

const json = `[1, 2, 3]`;

function transform(input, xslt, inputType, resultsSelect) {

    var transformationResult;

    if (inputType === 'XML') {
        transformationResult = SaxonJS.XPath.evaluate(
            "transform(map {'stylesheet-text': $stylesheet-text , 'source-node' : parse-xml($source-text), 'delivery-format' : 'serialized' })",
            [],
            {
                params: {
                    'stylesheet-text': xslt,
                    'source-text': input
                }
            }
        );
    }
    else if (inputType === 'JSON') {
        transformationResult = SaxonJS.XPath.evaluate(
            "let $json-input := parse-json($json-input-string) return transform(map {'stylesheet-text': $stylesheet-text , 'global-context-item' : $json-input, 'initial-match-selection' : $json-input, 'delivery-format' : 'serialized' })",
            [],
            {
                params: {
                    'stylesheet-text': xslt,
                    'json-input-string': input
                }
            }
        );
    }
    else if (inputType === 'None') {
        transformationResult = SaxonJS.XPath.evaluate(
            "transform(map {'stylesheet-text': $stylesheet-text, 'delivery-format' : 'serialized' })",
            [],
            {
                params: {
                    'stylesheet-text': xslt
                }
            }
        );
    }
    
    console.log(transformationResult);
}

transform(json, xslt, 'JSON', null);

while a change of the inlined XSLT to

const xslt = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  version="3.0"
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  xmlns:map="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map"
  exclude-result-prefixes="#all"
  expand-text="yes">

  <xsl:output method="adaptive"/>

  <xsl:template match=".">
    <result>
      <xsl:comment>Run with {system-property('xsl:product-name')} {system-property('xsl:product-version')}</xsl:comment>
      <xsl:sequence select="."/>
    </result>
  </xsl:template>
  
</xsl:stylesheet>`;

works as expected, the passed in XDM array is the context item in the template.

The error I get is

  message: 'Focus for . (dot) is absent',
  code: 'XPDY0002',
  xsltLineNr: '14',

which I assume indicates that call template invocation on xsl:initial-template is done. As I said, with the same fn:transform options and Saxon Java I don't get any interference by the name="xsl:initial-template" attribute, both XSLT versions use apply templates.