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RE: Can't get id() and key() to work
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 09:34:03 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Can't get id() and key() to work
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>
> But I hope that XSLT 2 solves these problems. It would really
> be nice if one could pass the context into key() and id().
>
Yes, XSLT 2.0 allows you to write
select="document('a.xml')/id('I0001')"
or
select="document('a.xml')/key('k', 'I0001')"
In fact it allows the operands of "/" to be any expressions that return
node-sequences.
You can use this today using Saxon 7.2.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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