RE: [xsl] How to do for-each on nodeset returned by key() function

Subject: RE: [xsl] How to do for-each on nodeset returned by key() function
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:30:08 +0100
> I have a declaration like this:
> 
> <xsl:key  name = "nodeInfoMap" match= "//nodeInfo" use = "name"/>
> 
> Now when I do key('nodeInfoMap', @name) at some context, more 
> than one nodes are returned. i.e.
> 
> count(key('nodeInfoMap', @name) ) > 1
> 
> In other words there are more than one nodeInfo with same 
> name but other
> children/text() could
> be different. Now, I wish to do a for-each loop over the 
> nodes. I tried 
> 
> <xsl:for-each select='key('nodeInfoMap', @name)'> -- DID NOT WORK

This code is correct. If it didn't work, then your error was elsewhere.
Perhaps the context node wasn't the element with the @name attribute.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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