Re: [xsl] Displaying Unique attribute value

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/10/3 Ganesh Babu N <nbabuganesh@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Dear All,
>
> I am having a tricky XML which i have to view in IE using XSL. (As IE
> does not support XSLT 2.0), the solution should be in XSLT 1.0
>
> My XML is like below:
>
> <chapter id="i120" page-num="1" extra-info="CHAPTER 1">
>        <title id="i121" page-num="1">Introduction to Corporate Finance</title>
>        <chbeginning id="i122" page-num="1" extra-info="Chapter Opener">
>                <title id="i123" page-num="1">OPENING CASE</title>
>                <para id="i124" page-num="1" dropcap="yes">Apple began as a
> two-man....million.</para>
>                <para id="i125" page-num="1">Despite...altogether.</para>
>                <para id="i126" page-num="1">Of course... Steven Jobs!</para>
>                <para id="i127" page-num="1">With ... 74 days.</para>
>        </chbeginning>
>        <chbody id="i128" page-num="1" extra-info="Chapter Body">
>                <section id="i129" page-num="1">
>                        <title id="i130" page-num="1">1.1 WHAT IS CORPORATE FINANCE?</title>
>                        <sectbody id="i131" page-num="1">
>                                <para id="i132" page-num="1">Suppose... firm.</para>
>                                <subsection id="i133" page-num="2">
>                                        <title id="i134" page-num="2">The Balanc.. Firm</title>
>                                        <para id="i135" page-num="2">Suppose ... finance.</para>
>
>
> In the above XML, page-num attribute is there for all the elements. My
> requirement is that to display the value of the page-num attribute
> only first time. Means i should display the page-num at where the
> value is changing. We don't know on which node the value will change
> it may be child, it may be sibling.
>

Use a key:

<xsl:key names="page-nums" match="*" use="@page-num"/>

with

<xsl:if test="generate-id() = generate-id(key('page-nums', @page-num)[1])">

to test if that element has the first first occurrence of its page-num attribute


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