<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<People>
   <Man name="Bob" wife="Alice" birth="1960-08-15"/>
   <Woman name="Alice" birth="1955-10-26"/>
</People>

To cut a long story short, I have an xsl template which scopes Woman, and I want to set a variable to be that Woman's husband (ie the Man for whom the Woman is the wife). I've come up with the following method:

Is there a more compact way (especially since I would want to access the birth attribute too)? I thought something along the lines of the following might work, but I couldn't figure out how.

<xsl:template match="Woman">
	 <xsl:value-of select="key('husband',@name)/@birth"/>
</xsl:template>

regards,
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