RE: [xsl] Getting a specific element count from a generic match

Subject: RE: [xsl] Getting a specific element count from a generic match
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:13:55 +0100
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> 
>   <xsl:variable name="namelist" select="//*[not(name() =
> following::*/name())]"/>
> 

We're talking 2.0 here: you can get all the distinct names using

select="distinct-values(//*/node-name())"

That's O(n log n) rather than O(n^2), and it's also namespace-aware.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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