RE: id() pattern

> My file structure is as follows.
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> <yy id="test">
>      <xx yyy="184"/>
> </yy>
> <yy id="test2">
>      <xx yyy="185"/>
> </yy>
>
Then <xsl:value-of select="id('test')/xx"/> should output "" (the
content of element xx), and <xsl:value-of select="id('test')/xx/@yyy"/>
should output "184".

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> > <xsl:attribute name="path"><xsl:value-of select="id('test')/xx"/></ 
> > xsl:attribute>
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> > <xsl:attribute name="path"><xsl:value-of 
> > select="id('test')/xx/@yyy"/></ xsl:attribute>
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> > Am I doing something incorrect?
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> well the xpath's you state are valid xpath's but whether or 
> not they should generate any non empty string as a result 
> depends on the input document...
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> they should work if yy has an id attribute of type ID 
> attribute and your input looks like
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> <yy id="test">
>   <xx yyy="foo">bar</xx>
> </yy>
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> you should get path="bar" and path="foo"  respectively.
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> David
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