So I think that, for XSLT 2.0, it would be great to allow to use the
document() function in front of location path patterns.
XSLT 2.0 allows document()/key() as a path expression, but there's no
plan to allow document() in patterns. Patterns still match nodes in any
document. If you're really determined you can (even in 1.0) use
document() within a predicate:
match="item[generate-id(ancestor::node()[1])=generate-id(document('a.xml
'))]"
but I wouldn't recommend it, the performance could be horrible. And I
don't think it would solve your problem.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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