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Patrick Warren wrote:
The definition of the function generate-id() says:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-generate-id
"The *generate-id <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-generate-id>* function returns a string that uniquely identifies the node in the argument node-set that is first in document order."
So the processor is using the first node, no matter how nodes are in the node-set, making the positional predicate unnecessary. Many XPath and XSLT functions that accept a node-set have this behavior.
Dave
Re: [xsl] xsl:key only checks first child, need to check all
Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl:key only checks first child, need to check all From: David Bertoni <david.bertoni@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:09:19 -0800 |
Patrick Warren wrote:
Thanks David. That does just what I wanted. Now generate-id finally makes more sense to me. I got rid of
all the // in my stylesheet, since your example showed me well how to use the keys I had set up.
The only thing I don't understand is why you don't use a [1] in order to get the first member of the key:
[generate-id()=generate-id(key('topics',.)[1])] instead of: [generate-id()=generate-id(key('topics',.))]
I mean, it works how you have it, but I don't get why you don't need to use it.
What exactly is your expression doing?
The definition of the function generate-id() says:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-generate-id
"The *generate-id <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-generate-id>* function returns a string that uniquely identifies the node in the argument node-set that is first in document order."
So the processor is using the first node, no matter how nodes are in the node-set, making the positional predicate unnecessary. Many XPath and XSLT functions that accept a node-set have this behavior.
Dave
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