Re: [xslt] key() in match pattern of xsl:key

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:55:37PM -0500, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:34:11AM -0500, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> >>Should it be possible to reference a key in the match pattern of another?
> >>I did not find this topic addressed in the XSLT 1.0 recommendation or
> >>elsewhere on the web.  Did I miss it?
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I think you're reaching the limits of what the XSLT-1.0 spec specifies
> >and are then in "implementation specific beaviour" area. A risky place to
> >be in...
> 
> And, as a result, I'm guessing libxslt does not claim a specific behavior 
> here anyway. That is, it could change without notice.

  I would not change it on purpose, but it's not anything there is 
normative prose about nor regression tests to check behaviour.

> Thanks.  That's what I wanted to know.  Too bad.  It's such a nice way of 
> computing set differences.

Daniel

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