Re: [xsl] browser status on id/xml:id (idxml)

[Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt <STAMMW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> why not simply use key(,'id',foo) instead if id(foo) using <xsl:key
> name="id" match="*[@id]" use="@id"/>  which doesn't require any ID
> properties of the node?

I already got duplicate elimination to work with key, see dupelim.xsl here:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/201008/msg00245.html

But
- I had no explanation on where the ghost nodes came from
- because of those ghost nodes an intersection had to be computed
- I had to to the duplicate elimination "by hand".

In
http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/201008/msg00246.html

Michael came up with the idea of having a space separated string and in
http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/201008/msg00258.html

I started investigation of how to use id() function for that.

id() function has two big advantage over Michael's proposed string
processing:
- it does duplicate elimination "automatically" given a list of (not
necessarily distict) strings
- it is part of the XSLT processor and should be more efficient than a XSLT
solution


Mit besten Gruessen / Best wishes,

Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
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From:       David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To:         xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:         Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt/Germany/IBM@IBMDE
Date:       08/25/2010 10:39 PM
Subject:    Re: [xsl] browser status on id/xml:id (idxml)



On 25/08/2010 20:58, Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> after being directed to use xml:id with the id() function in another
thread
> I got another pointer from David Carlisle to using "id" in browsers.
>
> Adding xhtml namespace to an element allows to use its id attribute as
> id (browsers "know" that's an id).
>
> Now I did some experiments which browsers support what.

why not simply use key(,'id',foo) instead if id(foo) using <xsl:key
name="id" match="*[@id]" use="@id"/>  which doesn't require any ID
properties of the node?

David