Scott Daley wrote:
> From a CSS I am having trouble combing the document() and id()
> functions. I have them working independently, but can't find the
> correct syntax to combine them.
>
> content: xpath("id(current()/@idref)/displayName"); - this works
> content:
> xpath("document(current()/@href)//*...@id=current()/@idref]/displayName");
> - this works - ie the longhand version of id
This one is OK. Why not use it?
("document(@href)//*...@id=current()/@idref]/displayName" should be work
fine too.)
> but I can't combine document() and id() - the following doesn't work but
> it illustrates one of the many variants I have tried
> content:
> xpath("document(current()/@href)//id(current()/@idref)/displayName");
The above one seems to be completely *illegal XPath* (disclaimer: to my
knowledge, with XPath 1.0).
You cannot write "...//id(...)/..." because id() is not a *node test*.
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PS: PITFALL: document() caches the returned documents and the cache is
pretty dumb. Moreover there is currently now way to disable this cache
(except for Spreadsheet calculations -- see
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/help/ar01s06s01.html#spreadsheetOptions)
