RE: Multiple IDs

Thanx David, for your answer.

Cheers,
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:17 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Multiple IDs


> So Michael, what does the id() function do in the case stated by Elliotte?

It returns the node with that id (as determoned by Xpath) ie the first node
with that id attribute.


> I mean, should the XML processor not just return the error stating the 
> input source is invalid XML,

Only if the input is parsed with a validating XML parser (which often is not
the case) The default parser in saxon for example isn't validating.

David

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