Re: Keys off of variable xml source

Is it legal to create a key off of an xml source stored as a variable?
So the key decleration might look like:

<xsl:key name="myKey" match="$external_xml_source//data" use="some_element"/>

If not, is there a workaround?

<xsl:variable name="var" select="[anything you need to capture context]"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$external_xml_source">
  ... inside here the key will retrieve nodes from $external_xml_source,
      and $var still refers to whatever you need from outside it ...
</xsl:for-each>

Cheers,
Wendell

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