At 11:01 AM 6/18/2008, it was written:

and
<xsl:if test="not(ancestor::ed:del) and not(//xref[@target=$anchor])">
...very much :0)

The only way to avoid the "//" above would be to use xsl:key

Is that they case? Binding //xref or //xref[@target] to a variable might do nearly as well as a key.

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