Meaning of L-reduction from Dominating set problem

We are working in a variation of Locating dominating sets. Recently, we realized that the reduction from dominating set to our problem in proving its NP-completeness turns out to be also an L-reduction. This would mean that there is no PTAS for our problem since the dominating set problem does not have PTAS. Now we have two questions:

1. since the dominating set problem is W[2]-complete, does that follow to our problem because of the L-reduction?
2. we have proved that our problem is in XP (i.e, piecewise polynomial) and also in APX (there is a 2-approximation polynomial algorithm). But dominating set problem is known to be not in APX. Does this mean somewhere we might have gone wrong or is this perfectly alright?

MathOverflow Asked by Venugopal K on August 7, 2020

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