RE: id() questions

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Scott Ferguson [SMTP:ferg@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 10, 1999 6:37 PM
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> Subject:	id() questions
> 
> 
> 1) Isn't the syntax 'verse/id()' more consistent with the rest of the
> spec than 'id(verse)'?  If id() acted like XT's 'next-element', then
> 'chapter/id(verse)' would match all verses pointed to by chapters. If
> I understand correctly, in the current spec, the following are
> equivalent:
>   chapter/verse/id(.)
>   chapter/id(verse)
>   id(chapter/verse)
> 
	[David] - Correct. These are all equivalent.

> 2) When 'id(@idref)' is used as a match pattern, e.g. in xsl:template,
> the XSL processor must scan the entire source tree to find any attribute
> '@idref' with value containing the id of the current node.  True?  Or am
> I missing something?
> 
	[David] - Technically, yes.  Because it is extemely expensive and
not particularly useful, it is not implemented as a match pattern in IE5's
XSL.

> Scott Ferguson
> Caucho Technology
> 
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