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Re: centralised alphabetical order ...

2004-04-01 04:46:42



I wanted to match all the titles in all documents under nsindex using the 
same xsl:key statement. For example, if i had 4 files with one title in each 
which started with the letter A, i would want the statement <xsl:for-each 
select="key('cat-by-firstocc', A)"> to go through all of those documents.

you can't have a single key lookup that covers more than one document.
xsl:key applies to all documents but each is indexed separately and
key() just returns nodes from the current document.

so you need to go
<xsl:for-each select="some path that selects at least one node from each
document">
 ... select="key(...

Often this isn't quite the semantic that you want, but it's the semantic
that you get:-)

David


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