Re: [xsl] Fwd: When you give generate-id a nodeset

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ihe Onwuka ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Given that generate-id given  a nodeset only considers the first node I
> thought wayhay that will work but it didn't until I included a first
> node predicate explicitly like so.
>
> xsl:key match="stuff | morestuff"
> use="generate-id(ancestor::tr[predicate]  |
>   ancestor::tr[not(predicate)]/preceding-sibling::tr[predicate][1])"/>
>                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ***
> Should such be necessary?. Only tried it running version 1.0 on  XSLTProc

preceding-sibling is a reverse axis so if you want the immediately 
preceding sibling the you need the positional predicate [1]. The 
generate-id is applied to the union which orders its operands in 
document order.