David C wrote: 

>In your stylesheet you have
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="key('itemKey',
>'ci:entityInformation.businessDescription')" />   
>  </xsl:for-each> 
>this apply-templates doesn't depend on the context node, ...

But the RESULT of apply-templates does - the fact that the arguments are
hardcoded was mentioned in the original question - key() wasn't working and
I was trying to figure out why by harcoding the arguments to compare the
behavior.   

I appreciate the explanation in the rest of the mail, however, I do think
it's odd but I understand it now, and thanks for the breakdown on variable
scope as well.  Thanks.

Don



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