Re: xsl:number - What is Numbering Context?

Ah, it's interesting you're able to apply templates to $target-element, since it's not actually a node in your source, it's a result-tree-fragment. (In XSLT 1.0 you shouldn't be able to do this.)

Try setting your variable as

<xsl:variable name="target-element" select="key('ids', $target-id)"/>

to get it to be be, truly, the node in your source, and not a copy (which loses the context).

I'll bet Ken will have a more complete explanation....

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