Re: Processing IDREFS attributes

*If* you have properly declared the id attributes, for my example they are called id=, something along the lines of:

<!ATTLIST foo id ID #IMPLIED>

then you should be able to say:

  <xsl:for-each select="id(@references)/@id">
    <xsl:if test="position()>1"> </xsl:if>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:for-each>

  <xsl:for-each select="id(@references)/@id">
    <xsl:value-of select="id(.)"/>
  </xsl:for-each>

With my original code with added context:
<xsl:templete match='foo'>
<xsl:for-each select="id(@references)">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

and it would report a space-separated list of unique token values (rather than just @references since that might have duplicates).

If you don't have a declaration of the attribute type, then id() has nothing to look up and will always return an empty node set.

I hope this helps, Dan.

..dan
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