Hmmmm... a thought:

Might a variable serve as a shortcut to a pre-selected result of data?


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:29:19 -0500, Wendell Piez
<wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Karl,
> 
> At 03:27 PM 3/28/2005, you wrote:
> >Wendel:  can you explain how your solution works?  Actually nevermind,
> >I get it : )
> 
> I thought you probably would. (Sometimes with keys it helps to jiggle them
> a little.)
> 
> >I wish there was a way to do this without being forced to provide the
> >"1" in the 2nd argument of the xsl:key statement.  Errr.... but that's
> >ok.
> 
> I take it you mean in the key() function not the xsl:key declaration ...
> well, in real life that '1' will usually be a bit of XPath, such as '@t'
> (the value of the t attribute of the context node). The function could have
> been designed to provide a default value for that argument, but it's not
> clear what that default should be. (The value of the context node? But
> that's rarely what we actually need.) So it's not a bad thing on balance, I
> think, that the argument is required.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> 
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