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RE: Can't get id() and key() to work


> 
> 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
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