Re: Correcting a prior error

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:21:12 +0100
Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > <xsl:key name="p" match="*">
> > <xsl:number level="any" count="*" from="/"/>
> > </xsl:key>
> 
> This creates a key of elements-by-position, so given a number it will
> return the element at that position.

That's what I was missing. Return an element, same as //*[position() =
$x] ?




> 
> > <xsl:variable name="val" select="document($src)/key('p', $posn)"/>
> 
> This gets the value of the of the element at that position in
> document($src)

Since the element is an xhtml a, and I want @href
select="document($src)/key('p', $posn)/@href"


Thanks Andrew. 

New use of keys to me. Thanks Mike.


regards 


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