Saxon Documentation

Full Contents

About Saxon

Changes in this Release

Notices

Using XSLT 2.0

Using XQuery

Handling Source Documents

XML Schema Processing

XPath API for Java

Saxon on .NET

Extensibility

Saxon Extensions

Sample Saxon Applications

The Saxon SQL Extension

XSLT Elements

XPath 2.0 Expression Syntax

Function Library

Standards Conformance

xslt:key

Function signature

$key-name	xs:string
$key-value	xs:anyAtomicType *
Result	node() *

Returns the nodes identified by a named key declaration in the stylesheet.

XSLT 2.0 Specification

Function signature

$key-name	xs:string
$key-value	xs:anyAtomicType *
$root-node	node()
Result	node() *

Returns the nodes identified by a named key declaration in the stylesheet. The nodes selected are those that have a matching key-value, and that are within the subtree rooted at $root-node (which will generally be either a document node or an element)

XSLT 2.0 Specification