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W. Eliot Kimber wrote: > But I think that what Aaron is really asking for is some sort of > analyzer that can report whether or not there are any attributes with a > declared type of "ID"--if not, then id() can never work. If so then id() > might work. Yes, I understood this. In particular, id() will never work if there is no DTD, as in his original question. Unfortunately, the XSLT spec leaves it to the processor whether to regard this as an error or just work on. But xsl:key() is fundamentally no different from "//*[@id='$name']"--it still requires that you know, for a given input document, what the ID and IDREF attributes are.
I personally prefer to know under which name IDs are sailing so that I can avoid doing silly stuff, like reading the full DocBook DTD each time a 5kB XML file is to be served just to get the ID attributes. J.Pietschmann XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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