Re: [xsl] Processing IDREFS attributes

[Dan Vint <dvint@xxxxxxxxx>]

Its not working that way with the for-each statement then. I think I'm 
getting exactly this:

******
 When the argument to id is of type node-set, then the result is
the union of the result of applying id to the string-value of each of
the nodes in the argument node-set.
********

Instead of getting tokens I can process I'm getting the list back again, 
which isn't any greater help. Unless something else would help me break up 
the list into individual pieces, the template route seems to be the only 
thing that works.

,,dan


At 02:05 PM 11/1/2005, you wrote:

> > that was where I was going, but I'm surprised that a function was provided
> > to track down IDs but not one to pull apart IDREFS, or build that tokenize
> > functionality into the id() function itself.
>
> It does. The attribute doesn't need to be declared IDREF: any space
> separated string is split up automatically:
>
> Xpath 1 says
>
>
> The id function selects elements by their unique ID (see [5.2.1 Unique
> IDs]). When the argument to id is of type node-set, then the result is
> the union of the result of applying id to the string-value of each of
> the nodes in the argument node-set. When the argument to id is of any
> other type, the argument is converted to a string as if by a call to the
> string function; the string is split into a whitespace-separated list of
> tokens (whitespace is any sequence of characters matching the production
> S); the result is a node-set containing the elements in the same
> document as the context node that have a unique ID equal to any of the
> tokens in the list.
>
> David
>
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