[xsl] designing a xsl:uniq function

[Paul Terray <terray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I recently went through some code I wrote for a 3 levels index, and I was 
very unproud of the result. My main problem is that I need to have a uniq 
value for my elements. Is there a way to cleanly design a template that 
would isolate an element, just like the xsl:sort works (a XSL equivalent to 
the UNIX uniq utility) ?

Perhaps a new command for XSLT 2.0 ? It would look like :

<xsl:for-each select="//indexentry[@level1=$my_first_level and @level2]">
        <xsl:sort select="@level2"/>
        <xsl:uniq select="@level2"/>
[...]
</xsl:for-each>

What do you think of it ?

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