Is it wrong to put the url into the match attribute of the key?
yes
If so how do i get around this?
Just use
<xsl:key name="ve-by-firstocc" match="viewentry"
also unless your viewentry has viewentry children you don't want
use="viewentry/entrydata[3]/text,1,1" />
but rather
use="entrydata[3]/text,1,1" />
An xsl:key applies (individually) to all documents. So to look it up
just make sure you are in the document of interets at teh point you use
key()
eg
<xsl:for-each select="document(http://somelink)">
<xsl:value-of select="key(....
David
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