Re: Emulation of XSL's id() in DSSSL?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

/ Ralf Kempkens <kempkens@xxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| In xsl, the id()-function automatically returns a nodeset, but in DSSSL there
| is only 'process-element-by-id' which returns a single node.

FWIW, if id() returns more than one node, you don't have a valid XML
document. (It's well-formed, but not valid; IDs are required to be
unique.)

| (e.g. <node id="id7" references="id1 id2 id4 id9">...</node>)
| 
| Does anybody out there have a function handy, that will return the right
| nodeset?

(element-with-id 'value') will return the element that has ID 'value'.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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