Re: [xsl] Looking Not Working for No Obvious Reason

["Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kimber, Eliot wrote:
> David Carlisle wrote:
>  >> I must be doing something wrong but I can't figure out what it might
>  >> be--the fact that some input values work and others don't is odd.

It must be my bug somewhere in my calling sequence or function 
declarations.

I set up the key-based approach suggested by David and Mike and verified 
that the keys will return the right value for my data using this sort of 
debugging report:

    <xsl:message>
Long to short title map:
    </xsl:message>
    <xsl:for-each-group select="$resolvedDoc//section/title" group-by=".">
      <xsl:variable name="baseTitle" select="string(current-group()[1])"/>
      <xsl:message> - "<xsl:sequence select="$baseTitle"/>" - 
"<xsl:sequence select="(key('sectionLongToShortTitleMap', $baseTitle, 
$sectionTitleMap)[1]/shorttitle, $baseTitle)[1]"/>"</xsl:message>
    </xsl:for-each-group>

But my actual functions still refuse to return the correct values, so it 
must be something stupid on my end.

Thanks for the help: I did learn something new, namely the (x,y)[1] 
idiom for getting a fallback value for a check that might fail.

Cheers,

Eliot

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