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At 2004-01-05 18:42 -0500, Scott Anguish wrote:
I've got two xml files, one with descriptions, and the other with items that use those descriptions. To use the key() function in another file, you have to set your current node into that file before executing the function, such as: <xsl:for-each select="document('thedocument.xml')">
<xsl:apply-templates select="key(....)"/>Is it possible to do this in a single operation? I tried match="document('thedocument.xml')/descriptions", but xsltproc barfed on that. Yes, as it should. Your one XSLT stylesheet can match nodes from different documents just by saying: <xsl:template match="descriptions">...... Where elsewhere in your document you do the push: <xsl:apply-templates select="document('thedocument.xml')/descriptions"/> If you have a <descriptions> element in both input files, then you could either use modes or you could qualify an ancestral element that is unique in each file. I hope this helps. ............................ Ken -- North America (Washington, DC): 3-day XSLT/2-day XSL-FO 2004-02-09 Instructor-led on-site corporate, government & user group training for XSLT and XSL-FO world-wide: please contact us for the details G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-11-X Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Member of the XML Guild of Practitioners: http://XMLGuild.info Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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