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Re: feature request; id idref pairs
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- Subject: Re: feature request; id idref pairs
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 11:39:12 GMT
- CC: xsl-editors at w3 dot org
- References: <39B19660C174D311BB9000A0C9E01C3F18B806@corfu.rnib.org.uk>
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> Today I can't find the nodelist which calls any particular box.
appendix G says:
> a way to get back from an element to the elements that reference it
> (e.g. by IDREF attributes);
In the meantime you can do something like
select="//*[@idref=current()/@id]"
which is probably not very efficient, but quicker than waiting for
xslt 2. If you have some idea where the referencing elements are, and
can therefore use something other than //* it probably isn't too bad.
David
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