Thank you Santiago,
If the id attribute was defined in the DTD as an ID, would it be possible to
evaluate it using only XPath (without XSLT) ?
Thanks for your help,
Regards,
-Enric
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
> Hi Enric,
>
> An attribute is not of type ID unless it is defined to be so in the
> DTD. I.e., it does not suffice to name it "id" as in the example
> below. However, you can solve this problem using xsl:key and key() as
> follows:
>
> 1) Define a key in your stylesheet:
>
> <xsl:key name="departments" match="Department" use="@id"/>
>
> 2) The following XPath should then evaluate to a nodeset with the
> Department element in it:
>
> key('departments', //Employee[Name='Jeff']/@DepartmentRef)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -- Santiago
>
> On Feb 28, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Enric Jaen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Could someone give me a clue about how to use the idref attribute
> > to select an element?
> >
> > For example, in the following document:
> >
> > <Company>
> > <Departments>
> > <Department id="d1">
> > <Name>Enterprise Development</Name>
> > </Department>
> > <Department id="d2">
> > <Name>Foundation Services</Name>
> > </Department>
> > </Departments>
> > <Employees>
> > <Employee DepartmentRef="d1">
> > <Name>Jeff</Name>
> > </Employee>
> > <Employee DepartmentRef="d1">
> > <Name>Mike</Name>
> > </Employee>
> > <Employee DepartmentRef="d2">
> > <Name>Sam</Name>
> > </Employee>
> > </Employees>
> > </Company>
> >
> > I'd like to obtain the Department name of Employee Jeff. How can
> > this be done?
> >
> > I guess I have to use the id() function, but I don't manage to
> > solve this.
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> > Regards,
> > -Enric
> >
>
>
>
