> Or would this work even better for you:
>
>  <xsl:for-each select="//@xml:id[.=$string-sequence]">

It's possible (and preferable) to write that as:

<xsl:for-each select="id($string-sequence)">

isn't it?

I've never used it but it worked in a quick sanity test I just did....
It's a bit like passing a sequence to key()




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