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Re: xsl:number - What is Numbering Context?

Wendell Piez wrote:
> 
> Eliot--
> 
> Ah, it's interesting you're able to apply templates to $target-element,
> since it's not actually a node in your source, it's a result-tree-fragment.
> (In XSLT 1.0 you shouldn't be able to do this.)
> 
> Try setting your variable as
> 
>    <xsl:variable name="target-element" select="key('ids', $target-id)"/>
> 
> to get it to be be, truly, the node in your source, and not a copy (which
> loses the context).

That was it--very subtle.

Thanks,

Eliot
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