Re: [xsl] Calling subdocuments with processing directives

[Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why does the key not aggregate all the values it sees?

Steven

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On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Michael Kay wrote:

> > Thanks Michael, the XPath here is not immediately clear to me
> > where does $docs come from?
>
> Sorry, I was being too terse. You have a set of documents that you  
> want to
> aggregate for searching. I assumed that set of documents was bound  
> to the
> variable $docs.
>
> Incidentally, David's formulation $docs/key(x,y) works equally well  
> - so
> long as you remember that the context for evaluating y is different  
> in the
> two expressions.
>
> > For the sake of my greater understanding - is there some
> > fundamental reason why this is the case? It seems counter
> > intuitive but I am not fully immersed yet in the XSL culture.
>
> Sorry - why *what* is the case?
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/