RE: [xsl] keys vs. parameters

["Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>]

> > when you use key('foo','bar') it looks up bar in the foo table 
> > associated with the current document. So you just need to make sure 
> > you are in the document that you want, so
> 
> Umm, all fine and good, but how do you generate the key table 
> in the first place?  I don't want the keys on the main 
> document, I want them on the document processed by document() 
> (or in some cases on the data produced by an extension)...
> 
A typical strategy is that an XSLT processor will generate the key table
on a particular document the first time you use the key() function with
that as the context document. So it never builds indexes unless you
actually use them.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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