I found my error. I had in my actual code:



 <xsl:for-each select="id(@ref)/@references">
   <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </xsl:for-each>

So this is why the loop only executed once. I was seeing the id() at the 
front thinking it was doing the full lookup I was expecting. This also 
explains why I got the same value as what was in @references. I needed:



 <xsl:for-each select="id(id(@ref)/@references)">
   <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </xsl:for-each>

thanks
..dan


At 02:52 PM 11/1/2005, David Carlisle wrote:





<!DOCTYPE x [
<!ATTLIST y id ID #IMPLIED>
]>
<x ref=" e c a a ">
  <y id="a">1</y>
  <y id="b">2</y>
  <y id="c">3</y>
  <y id="e">4</y>
</x>





<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
              xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">


<xsl:template match="x">
 <xsl:for-each select="id(@ref)">
   [<xsl:value-of select="."/>]
 </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>




$ saxon idref.xml idref.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   [1]

   [3]



   [4]




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