RE: Searching for a particular node

Hi,

> Is it possible using XSL to select a node based on a 
> particular value ...
> for example in the following xml, I want to select the 
> <entity> node with an
> id of 'e14'. My question is, how do I accomplish this with 
> XSL using @id?

<xsl:template match="tree">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="entity[@id = 'e14']" />
<xsl:template match="entity">

or if the id attribute is declared ID in the DTD

<xsl:template match="tree">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="id('e14')" />
<xsl:template match="entity">

or if you have a zillioin entity elements, declare a key

<xsl:key name="entities" match="entity" use="@id" />

<xsl:template match="tree">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="key('entities', 'e14')" />
<xsl:template match="entity">

Santtu

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