RE: [xsl] Removing duplicates

[Clay Leeds <cleeds@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

At 04:02 PM 10/22/2002, you wrote:
> "
> the preceding-sibling axis contains all the preceding siblings of the
> context node; if the context node is an attribute node or namespace node,
> the preceding-sibling axis is empty
> "

COOL!

> Sorry but I must be slow (it is late here).
> You only want to process RCs if there is no RC with the same value in the
> same DETAILLINE?
> Is that right?

Actually, I only want to process TRCs. And, although they all happen to be 
within the DETAILLINE, I only have to go up as far as RCDATA to see all of 
the RCDATALINEs

DETAIL
  DETAILLINE
    RCDATA
      RCDATALINE
        RC
        TRC
      /RCDATALINE
      RCDATALINE
        RC
        TRC
      /RCDATALINE
      RCDATALINE
        RC
        TRC
      /RCDATALINE
    /RCDATA
  /DETAILLINE
/DETAIL

> If so,
>
> <xsl:template match="RC">
>         <xsl:if
> test="not(ancestor::DETAILLINE/descendant::RC[count(following::RC|current())
> = count(following::RC)][text()=current()/text()])">             ...
>         </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
>
> This says "look for RCs descending from the same DETAILLINE as this RC,
> where they have the same text value as this RC, and they have a following RC
> that is the same as this RC (i.e. they are a preceding RC)"

So I modified your TEMPLATE as follows:

not(ancestor::RCDATA/descendant::TRC[count(following::TRC|current()
= count(following::TRC)][text()=current()/text()])

Unfortunately, it doesn't work. :-(

> There is probably a better way of doing this.

Wishing I could I've been banging on this for, well, how many hours since 
9am yesterday? Hey... it's 4:20pm here (I'm in California).

BTW, the DATE on this message appears to be fine...

:-)


- Clay Leeds
- Web Developer/Programmer
- cleeds@xxxxxxxxxx


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