- From: Michael Kay <mhkay@iclway.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:00:46 +0100
- To: <Thomas.Masing@bgs-ag.de>, <xsl-editors@w3.org>
> Dear Sirs, > in my opinion it would be nice to have a key function for > mutiple source > documents. > > Best regards > > Thomas Mäsing > Thomas, if you read the requirements for XPath 2.0 at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20req, you will see in section 2.1: <quote> Allowing node-set functions to appear in a location step would allow expressions like: document("otherdoc.xml")/id("foo")/a/b and document("otherdoc.xml")/key("x","foo")/a/b </quote> It would also allow $docs/key("x","foo")/a/b where $docs is a set of root-nodes from different documents; this would have the effect you require. Regards, Mike Kay
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