RE: [xsl] key definition

["Steve Renshaw" <renshaw_steve at hotmail dot com>]

Okay, the following stylesheet works, but I would appreciate any
improvements. I would like to make the select statement as short
as possible (in characters that had to be typed) as i have to use
this construct many times in my application. This is the statement
that I would like to shorten up:

   select="key('MyKey',concat('1','alpha'))/parent::*">
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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0">

<xsl:key name="MyKey" match="/items/item/data"
   use="concat(@id,text())"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:for-each select="key('MyKey',concat('1','alpha'))/parent::*">
   <xsl:value-of select="data[@id='1']"/>,
   <xsl:value-of select="data[@id='2']"/><br/>
  </xsl:for-each>
  <hr/>
  <xsl:for-each select="key('MyKey',concat('2','gamma'))/parent::*">
   <xsl:value-of select="data[@id='1']"/>,
   <xsl:value-of select="data[@id='2']"/><br/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


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