Re: [xsl] keys and idrefs - XSLT2 request?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:33 AM 10/9/01, Jeni wrote:
> Another thing I just thought of was perhaps you could use the id()
> function when setting the key value. The id() function can take a
> space-separated list of IDs and gets you all the elements with those
> IDs. Then you can go from those elements to the IDs themselves, to
> index the element holding the IDREFS attribute by the values of the
> IDs:
>
> <xsl:key name="control"
>          match="process"
>          use="id(@control)/@id"/>
>
> I think that would work.

Cunning!

Naturally, I invoked Jeni's name, only to find she'd already appeared with 
all my solutions, and then some, before I even asked....

Cheers,
Wendell


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