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RE: How to do for-each on nodeset returned by key() function
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:30:08 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] How to do for-each on nodeset returned by key() function
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> I have a declaration like this:
>
> <xsl:key name = "nodeInfoMap" match= "//nodeInfo" use = "name"/>
>
> Now when I do key('nodeInfoMap', @name) at some context, more
> than one nodes are returned. i.e.
>
> count(key('nodeInfoMap', @name) ) > 1
>
> In other words there are more than one nodeInfo with same
> name but other
> children/text() could
> be different. Now, I wish to do a for-each loop over the
> nodes. I tried
>
> <xsl:for-each select='key('nodeInfoMap', @name)'> -- DID NOT WORK
This code is correct. If it didn't work, then your error was elsewhere.
Perhaps the context node wasn't the element with the @name attribute.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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