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Sze, Tak F wrote: > From another discussion group, the following confusion comes up > on the argument of the id function: > > 1. From the XSLT 1.0, XSLT grammer production 3 under section 5.2 indicates > the argument to id function has to be a literal, i.e. a string enclosed in > single or double quotes. > > 2. From the XPath 1.0, section 4.1 indicates the argument can be other than > a string. > > It seems that XSLT 1.0 says that the argument to id function must be > a literal in syntax while XPath says it doesn't have to be. Which is > correct? They're both correct. The XSLT grammar is simply restricting the argument type for calls to the id() function that occur in patterns. The same restriction is applied to the XSLT-specific key() function, which can otherwise accept expressions as arguments. Dave XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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