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Re: [xsl] Using keys on a tree from document()

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Yes, that was my case. I have a 

<xsl:apply-templates select="document('....')/Process/>

and then is inside the template that matches Process that i use the keys.

Thanks for your answer.


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:17:40 -0000, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I just read some posts in the archive, but they are about comparing
> > keys in the source document with keys in external documents from
> > document function.
> >
> > However, in my case, i do not have a source document, just the one i'm
> > getting thru document(), and i'll like to use keys on that to find
> > some related nodes from that document, just like if it was the source
> > docuement?
> >
> > Is this possible? If yes, how?
> 
> It is possible, and it's fairly automatic.
> 
> When you call key('k', 'banana'), the system searches for all nodes that:
> 
> 1. match the match pattern of key 'k'
> 2. have the 'use' value = 'banana'
> 3. are in the same document as the context node
> 
> So if the context node is in document('abc.xml'), that's the one that is
> searched.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/

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