Re: AW: [xsl] Using key() from outside the default namespace

[Peter Flynn <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 02:16, Peter Flynn wrote:
> I'll sort out a minimal instance to demonstrate this.

This is in http://www.silmaril.ie/xslt/minimal.zip

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README says:

This is a minimal set of files to reproduce the problem:

    How do you use a key which indexes nodes in the
    main document, when processing nodes from an
    auxiliary document via for-each using document()?

The canonical answer is to set a global variable to the document root
and then within the for-each of the document(), set a variable to hold
the desired key node, containing a dummy for-each to process the
global variable (which sets the context back to the main document),
within which you make the call to key().

This set of files does exactly that, and shows that this procedure
of using the global variable causes the document root template to
be fired, outputting unwanted nested literal result elements.

To run this, use something like

	$ saxon doc.xml doc2htm.xsl doc.html

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