Probably (I'm guessing) because your source document does not have a DTD and
therefore there are no attributes of type ID.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ranjan K. Baisak [mailto:ranjanbaisak@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 31 May 2005 08:19
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  problem with id() function
> 
> Hello,
>      Can anybody please suggest me why id() function
> is not working.
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="id(connection/@pinref)">
> 
>                      <xsl:value-of
> select="../@name"/>:
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
> 
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> Note: connection/@pinref returns set of node set.
> 
> regards,
> Ranjan
> 
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