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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Doug Marttila writes: > I am using a node in my xml to define variables. The defined variables > are referenced by ID in another node (a project). The problem is that > some variables have sub-ids (the variables are "buckets" instead of > numeric values, they can have values like "high" "med" "low") This is, I'm sorry to say, a Frequently Requested Feature, i.e. there is no simple way to achieve what you want. I think of this as the licence-plate problem -- cars have licence plates, which specify state and plate number. Within states, plate numbers are unique. Presuming a set of States keyed by @code, each containing a sequence of IssuedPlates keyed by @number, to check an ObservedPlate with @state and @number we need a _chained_ KeyRef, i.e. use @state to identify a State, then use @number to identify an IssuedPlate _within that State_. The work-around you suggest (as it were, copying @code down from State onto all IssuedPlates) is the only one I'm aware of. ht - -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@i... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDvPIlkjnJixAXWBoRAtwnAJ9tlo6T26W5xXh0aHEHbgWRUmhiBwCeNrrq 58tk9hQGA87lf6jcQOlXG+0= =RcnZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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