Re: [xsl] Grouping problem - Duplicates

[Sarah <sarah10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks,
I found the EXSLT function during the weekend, and it does makes it generic 
enough (at least until XSLT 2.0 is final)
Sarah

At 15:52 3/5/2004, you wrote:

> >The second is, that this solution is product-dependent. By using the
> >xalan:nodeset function, it limits the solution to a certain product.
> >Is there no other way that would be generic? (This is for me a
> requirement).
>
> There is no fully portable solution in XSLT 1.0.
>
> You can make this slightly more portable by using the EXSLT node-set
> extension function instead. EXSLT is a "standard non-standard" set of
> extension functions which is supported by a number of XSLT processors,
> Xalan among them. It isn't fully generic, but at least it improves the odds
> that your processor will understand the request.
>
> The truly generic solution will be XSLT 2.0, where the distinction between
> node sets and source trees and result tree fragments will be eliminated.
>
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