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I thought so. Of course href is then a misnomer. The unfortunate thing is that the source document becomes littered with id attributes on all the elements which are in effect the full navigation path (to preserve uniqueness) to that element. I am forced into naming with ids instead of pointing with references. "Where to go" is not "How to get there". What gets lost in that, for example, is the fact that the key part href is a local reference, which used to be explicit. I think we need uri() as James Clark described generalising it (so it can subsume the functionality of id() as well), and wouldn't it be nice to agree on a syntax in the bargain. Cheers, David vun Kannon > -----Original Message----- > From: David Schach [SMTP:davidsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 2:28 PM > To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: RE: Accessing values from another sub-tree > > Yes, this can be accomplished within the XSL spec. If you change your data > so that it uses id/idrefs then you do not need the follow() function. > I've > highlighted the attributes that should become ididrefs. For example, > > <Class name="Customer"> > <Property name="FirstName" datatype="String"/> > <Property name="LastName" datatype="String"/> > <Property name="CustID" datatype="Integer"/> > <Key primary="true"> > <Part href="CustID'" /> > </Key> > > <Class name="Address"> > <Property name="Street" datatype="String"/> > <Property name="City" datatype="String"/> > <Property name="ZIP" datatype="String"/> > <Property name="State" datatype="String"/> > <Key primary="true"> > <Part href="../Property/@name='Zip'" /> > <Part href="../Property/@name='Street'" /> > </Key> > </Class> > ... > <Association name="AccessibleAt"> > <AssociationEnd href="Customer'" role="theCustomer" > cardinality="*"/> > <AssociationEnd href="Address'" role="theAddress" > cardinality="*"/> > </Association> > > Then the XSL becomes > <xsl:for-each > select="id(@href)/Key[@primary='true']/Part"> > > Note: This feature is not available in the IE5b2 but it will be available > in > the final release of IE5. > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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