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Re: xsl:number - What is Numbering Context?


At 05:49 PM 6/24/2002, Eliot wrote:
> > Try setting your variable as
> >
> >    <xsl:variable name="target-element" select="key('ids', $target-id)"/>
> >
> > to get it to be be, truly, the node in your source, and not a copy (which
> > loses the context).
>
>That was it--very subtle.

*Very* subtle, and we're going to have to watch out for this when we get to 
XSLT 2.0. A real gotcha.

Cheers,
Wendell




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