Re: id function doesn't work in conjonction with a XML

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:55:03 +0000, Jeni wrote:

>That's an interesting idea. The main difficulty, I think, ...
OK, I guess in the general case it isn't on - maybe for just a
"sensible" subset of Schema which doesn't redefine the meaning of
elements based on all sorts of subtle context.  IMHO its usually a bad
idea to do this kind of thing.

>I was kinda hoping that we'd get this kind of facility in XSLT 2.0 --
>define the identity constraint in the schema and use it through the
>key() function in XSLT. But that doesn't seem to be on the cards at
>the moment; even the dereference operator (=>) only uses IDs, not
>the more flexible identity constraints.
>
I don't think I would want to overload the key() function with
something like this - why not shema-id() or something instead?

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