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4/8/2010

Selects elements by their unique ID.

Syntax 

		
node-set id(
object)

Parameters

object

White-space separated string of identifiers or a node-set.

Return Value

The node-set containing identifiers defined in object.

Remarks

When the argument is of type node-set, the result is the union of the result of applying id()to the string value of each of the nodes in the node-set argument.

When the argument is of any other type, it is converted to a string and then split into a white-space separated list of tokens (white space is any sequence of characters matching the production); the result is a node-set containing the elements in the same document as the context node that have a unique identifier equal to any of the tokens in the list.

The following selects the element with the unique identifier "mysample".

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id("mysample")

The following selects the fifth para child of the element with unique identifier "mysample".

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id("mysample")/child::para[position()=5]

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