Subject: RE: Storing a reference to a node From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:26:18 -0000 |
> I am new to XSLT, and I was wondering whether it is possible > to store a reference to a paticular node. Use: <xsl:variable name="thisnode" select="."/> <xsl:value-of select="$thisnode/> > I tried to achieve sth like this by using generate-id() to > store the id for a specific node in a xsl:variable, and then look up the node > with id(), but that does not seem to work: > generate-id() generates a new identifier for a node, unrelated to any identifier present in the source document; id() locates a node using an identifier already present in the source document. There is no inverse to generate-id() (ie. find the node whose generated id would be X), other than of course the horrendous "//node()[generate-id()==$id]". Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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