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RE: building a nodeset from selected nodes
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] building a nodeset from selected nodes
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 15:51:43 +0100
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Hi Kurt,
At 05:26 PM 7/5/01, you wrote:
>Thanks, but doesn't the instruction:
> <xsl:for-each select="key('columns-by-name', column)">
>get a node-set of columns where name=column? I need an instruction
>that can get a node-set of columns where name IN (col1, col2, ...).
I see you've picked up the nice feature that that second argument can
return a node-set and not be treated as a string.
(Even if it didn't, you could still iterate over the column children and
use . for that second argument. ;-)
But as I said, we use keys so much for grouping, we forget the general case
of what they're really for, "a way to work with documents that contain an
implicit cross-reference structure" [XSLT 12].
Cheers,
Wendell
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