Re: [xsl] Retrieving sequence of unique strings from another sequence

Subject: Re: [xsl] Retrieving sequence of unique strings from another sequence
From: Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:50:43 -0500
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 13:41 -0500, Houghton,Andrew wrote:
> I have a sequence of strings, e.g., ('abc', 'def', 'def', 'ghi'), and
> I want to create a new sequence that will have only the unique strings
> in it.

[...]

> Can anyone suggest how I might use one or more XSL 2.0 functions to
> return only the unique strings.

$sequence[count(index-of($sequence, .)) eq 1]
maybe?

Liam

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