Re: xsl:key use attribute using string() causes missin

  I am not sure what is the reason for
  this, would appreciate if anyone could shed light on
  this behavior.  Example input XML and XSLT below.

That is the usual behaviour in XPath1 for all string valued functions.
To get a string value from a node set (either implicitly or explictly
using string()) you take the string value of the first  node in document
order.

You see the same effect in eg
<xsl:value-of select="cell[@column=4]/subcell"/>
which would just return teh string value of teh first such element
whereas
<xsl:copy-of select="cell[@column=4]/subcell"/>
would return all the elements.

In this case I think the solution is just to remove the string()
function.

I don't understand

  I been using string() in xsl:key use attribute
  extensively since it allows me to retrieve records
  using the key value "".

as this is true whether or not you use string().

David


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