Re: Can't use 'id' function in XT 19990725

[Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Harbarth, Juliane]
> This works nicely, but if I replace "//node()[@id=$targetid]" with
> "id($targetid)" which (to my understanding) amounts to the same
> thing, it does not work. The node with id equal to $targetid is not
> found. What am I getting wrong ?

For this to work, the ID attributes must be declared as such, and the
processor must read those declarations.  If you're using XT, for
example, you need to have the declarations in the internal subset.

-Chris
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