Hi,

Just a question; does the xsl:key only index elements from the source input xml?

For example, if I use the doc() function to pull in xml fragments, does the key know to index any elements that apply in the xml that was pulled in with doc()?

Thanks for the help.

xsl: key defines keys for any input document you use, whether it is the primary one or a secondary one you load with "document" or "doc" does not matter. But a key is built for each document and one call to the "key" function only finds nodes in one document so you need to make sure you use e.g. "key('key-name', 'foo')" with the right context node or you use e.g. "key('key-name', 'foo', doc('bar.xml'))" to provide the context.

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Great. Thanks for the explanation!