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--- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > <xsl:key name="x" match="node()" > > use="generate-id((..|preceding-sibling::div1|preceding-sibling::div2|preceding-sibling::div3)[last()])"/> > > can only match <div1>, <div2>, and <div3> > elements, > > No. It matches all nodes (match="node()") and > indexes them by the > genererate-id of the nearest preceding sibling dvi* > , or the parent if > there is no such sibling. > > This means that if you are on a div* and look up the > key using the > generate-id of teh current node, you get returned > the nodes that have > this key value, which is all teh nodes for which > this is the nearest > preceding sibling div* Ah, I see now. I had read the stuff at jenitennisson.com, but I hadn't realized that what <xsl:key/> was doing was setting up a sort of lookup table. No wonder I didn't get what you were doing. My bad. BTW, are you using the generated ID of the parent mainly as a placeholder value? > making a key on node9) is a bit expensive as it puts > every node in teh > document into the index, you would probably be > better to change the > match to > div1/node() Which is probably cheaper, the key method or the method with the variable and count() earlier in the thread. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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