On Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:26:14 -0500
Graydon Saunders via BaseX-Talk <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
wrote:

> It's once I want to relate the id back to the document ("this
> generated value goes with this id attribute node") that I'm having
> trouble. I don't want to use path(); it'd work, but it's not an
> efficient approach. (Or at least I don't understand it as efficient.)

Yeah, the spec says the value can be used to locate a node, but there
doesn’t seem to be a htap() function to go from path to node.

So, since XQuery lacks xsl:key :), i build a map of generate-id()
values to nodes. But if you need to use it between database queries,
yes, attributes.


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