[xsl] Re: Duplicates

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
>   Can anybody help me. I want to filter duplicates without use of keys and
>   preceding-sibling
>
>
> why?
>
> It's like saying I want to sum 1 2 3 4 without using an addition
> operator.

There are real cases when this is simply unavoidable, e.g. trying to get the
distinct-valued nodes from a node-set, containing nodes from more than one
document.

One solution is to use the "make-distinct" template from FXSL. This solution
was first posted in xsl-list a year and a half ago:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-12/msg00812.html



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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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