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Oct 07, 2008  XSLT xsl:key element; XSLT key function; Crane Softwrights Ltd. Resource Library - An Illustration of the XSLT Key Construct. Generate-id(key('conference-group','Big 12')1) the id of the first node in the list of nodes of of school elements whose conference attribute is 'Big 12'. Jun 22, 2010 how can use generate-id function in xsl to genarate uniq id for selected element You just put the element as an argument of generate-id function - e.g. Oct 03, 2001 Generating Unique IDs and Linking to Them. October 3, 2001. Bob DuCharme. When an XSLT stylesheet converts one XML document into another, the ability to add unique ID values to elements in the result document can make the result document much more useful to applications that use it. The fn:key function returns the nodes with a particular key. It is similar to calling the fn:id function except using keys instead of IDs. Note: this is an XSLT-only function; it is not available in XQuery or XPath. Arguments and Return Type.

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Xslt Generate-id Function And Key Diagram

Xslt 1.0 User Defined Functions

<xsl:key> tag element specifies a named name-value pair assigned to a specific element in an XML document. This key is used with the key() function in XPath expressions to access the assigned elements in an XML document. Generating and adding a new ssh key in git bash.

Declaration

Following is the syntax declaration of <xsl:key> element.

Attributes

Elements

Demo Example

This example creates a table of <student> element with its attribute rollno and its child <firstname>, <lastname>, <nickname>, and <marks> by iterating over each student. It checks key as firstname to be one of the student's name and then prints the student details.

students.xml

students.xsl

Output