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Re: xsl:key
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- Subject: Re: xsl:key
- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni at friday dot u-net dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:20:15 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
David Marston wrote:
>
>Suggested instruction:
><xsl:copy-of select="key('blueprint', $contractType)"/>
>where more than one para element has the designated
>value in $contractType.
>
>Dr Jeni Tennison then goes on to say:
>>Note that this will only get one paragraph - if there are multiple
>>paragraphs with the same value for the 'doc' attribute, then you
>>should iterate over them using xsl:for-each.
>
>That's not the way I read Section 11.3, nor the way Xalan works.
>"When the result [of the select=expression] is a node-set, all
>the nodes in the set are copied in document order...."
>The key() function returns a node-set.
Sorry. Me being stupid again. Thanks for pointing it out.
Jeni
Jeni Tennison
http://friday.u-net.com/jeni/
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