Re: Processing IDREFS attributes

I've got a few places where I have an attribute of type IDREFS and a sequence of ID values like references="Location Party Organization". I had thought a simple for-each loop would pull these apart with the id() function, in something like this:

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

But it doesn't work. What I get is the content of @references with the above.

The only other solution I have thought about is creating a template and recursively pulling apart the string. This should work, but I would think there is a simpler way to make this work. Is there a solution I missed?

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

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