Hi,
I was studying XSLT from ZVON.org tutorials. In page 56
http://zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Outp...le68_ch13.html
they show an example of id() function usage, which I'm lost after . I tried it in IE and it really works. In the for-each loop of //ref, apply-templates is supposed to work for sub elements of ref tags (which is none other than text nodes), but somehow it parses note tags. If anyone can explain me how, I'd be relieved. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I might have an answer to my question:
If you look at the DTD at the top of document, you'll see that id attribute in ref is not defined as ID but IDREF. Therefore id selection in apply-template call does not parse ref tags themselves but looks tags with real id attributes defined as ID in DTD (in this case note tags).
Still one thing I can't understand is that note tags are not children of ref tags or even doc tag. How come apply-templates can call for tags that are supposed to be out of their call range (in this case I assume it is for-each call of ref tags). I still need to be clarified on that. Thanks.

The id function returns the node with the supplied id. To qualify as an id an attribute can have any name but must be defined as type ID in an accompanying DTD. It doesn't matter where the node is in relation to where the id function was called. It would have been a clearer example if the ref elements had an atrribute called something other than "id", "idref" for example. The XPath expressions are also poor in the example. The times you see paths preceded by // when it is completely unnecessary...
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Joe (Co-author Beginning XML, 3rd edition)