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RE: keys and idrefs - XSLT2 request?
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] keys and idrefs - XSLT2 request?
- From: DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:05:35 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
David C wrote:
> but to find all process elements that contain XAG in their control
> attribute you could do
>
> select="key('control', 'XAG')"
>
> so long as you key was defined something like
>
>
> <xsl:key match="process" use="@control"/>
> <xsl:key match="process" use="substring-before(@control,' ')"/>
> <xsl:key match="process" use="substring-after(@control,' ')"/>
> <xsl:key match="process"
> use="substring-before(substring-after(@control,' '),' ')"/>
> ....
Which as you point out, indicates that XSLT has no means of
using keys (simply) on idrefs, to find 'reverse' links.
I don't particularly like the use of string routines in attributes
to achieve this, I wonder if this drives an XSLT 2 request?
Either to extend the key function in some way to handle idrefs,
or to permit a key definition to take in all attributes of type idrefs?
(I could see the problem where I have a CDATA attribute with spaces,
but surely idrefs are a bit special?)
Regards daveP
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