Attributes of type ID must not start with a number.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#id

For the id() function to work, any attribute of type ID must declared as
such in a DTD. See note under
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Embedding-Stylesheets

e.g., in an internal subset:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE Order SYSTEM "order.dtd" [
 <!ATTLIST xsl:stylesheet id ID #IMPLIED>
]>

-Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeffrey
Langdon
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:32 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Selecting and "id"


Can someone please tell me why I cannot get the following to work.   I am
trying to select the id number for specific element.

<!-- XML -->

<AAA>
     <BBB id = "11" >B1 </BBB>
     <BBB id = "22" >B2 </BBB>
     <BBB id = "33" >B3 </BBB>
</AAA>

<!-- XSL -->

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version =
"1.0" >


          <xsl:template match = "/" >
               <xsl:value-of select = "id('33')" />
          </xsl:template>
     </xsl:stylesheet>

I get an error that reads:

"This name may not begin with the '3' character:"


I want to talk to/read all elements that have an id of 33.  In this case, of
course there is only one.



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