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Re: xsl:key
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- Subject: Re: xsl:key
- From: David_Marston at lotus dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:28:32 -0400
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Suggested instruction:
<xsl:copy-of select="key('blueprint', $contractType)"/>
where more than one para element has the designated
value in $contractType.
Dr Jeni Tennison then goes on to say:
>Note that this will only get one paragraph - if there are multiple
>paragraphs with the same value for the 'doc' attribute, then you
>should iterate over them using xsl:for-each.
That's not the way I read Section 11.3, nor the way Xalan works.
"When the result [of the select=expression] is a node-set, all
the nodes in the set are copied in document order...."
The key() function returns a node-set.
.................David Marston
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