Re: [xsl] concatenated key

["J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>]

I-Lin Kuo wrote:
> Given a node, I'm trying to identify/pull out those nodes in the 
> document having the same set of identically named child nodes
....
> The way I'm thinking about doing this is to construct an xsl:key where 
> the value of the key consists of a concatenation of all the @name of its 
> children and then do a select on the key. However, I can't figure out 
> what expression I should have for the use="" attribute of xsl:key, and 

I don't think this can be solved with XSLT 1.0 and arbitrary numbers
of children. If you can assert a fixed and preferably low maximum
number of children, you can try
  use="concat(name(*[1]),'#',name(*[2]),name(*[3]))"
etc. The # characters prevent spurious matches.

J.Pietschmann


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