Subject: Re: [xsl] Testing 2 XML documents for equality - a solution From: Mukul Gandhi <mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:35:31 -0800 (PST) |
Hi David, Thanks a lot for pointing the bugs.. I'll try to solve these and post a modified stylesheet. Regards, Mukul --- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > <xsl:for-each select="$doc1//@*"> > <xsl:sort select="name()" /> > <xsl:value-of select="name()" > />:<xsl:value-of > select="." />:<xsl:value-of select="name(..)" > />:<xsl:value-of > select="count(../ancestor-or-self::node())" /> > </xsl:for-each> > > No. You can't use //@* for this at all. > You have to do normalise the attributes for each > element separately, ie > inline the string from each attribute along with the > string for each > element. > <x> > <y a="2"/> > <y/> > </x> > is equal to > <x> > <y/> > <y a="2"/> > </x> > > by the above as you only reecord that the a > attribute is on a level 2 y > element, you don't record which element it is on. > > What is your definition of equality that you are > trying to implement? > This definition (even if corrected) is not namespace > aware so > <x:foo xmlns:x="a"/> would be different from <y:foo > xmlns:y="a"/> > but equal to <x:foo xmlns:x="b"/> > so the definition of equality wouldn't be much use > for any XPath use, > two "equal" inputs would behave diffently as input > to a stylesheet. > > David > > ________________________________________________________________________ > This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by > Star. The > service is powered by MessageLabs. For more > information on a proactive > anti-virus service working around the clock, around > the globe, visit: > http://www.star.net.uk > ________________________________________________________________________ > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
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