> Is there a way to generate unique IDs for each node in an XML document and
> then when you match that node can you retrieve the key's value (the UID)?

Isn't this exactly what generate-id() does?

<xsl:template match="*">
 <xsl:value-of select="generate-id()"/>
</xsl:template>

David

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