Re: [xsl] combine on key and dedupe

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/03/2010 14:36, Joyce Chapman wrote:
> Thank you David, that is working great. It's really helpful of you.
>
> It's not critical because I wrote a second stylesheet to take care of
> the problem, but for knowledge's sake: is there a way to use the
> "except" with duplicates of multiple elements in this situation? I'm
> getting multiples of<nickName>  values that I'd like to dedupe too,
> like the example below, but I was not successful in my experimentation
> with trying to add a second element value with a pipe to the
> <xsl:copy-of>  select statement that you sent me.
>
> <author>
>   <authorizedName>Joe Bob</authorizedName>
>   <nickName>Joe</nickName>
>   <nickName>Joe</nickName>
>   <exampleTitle>Title1</exampleTitle>
>   <exampleTitle>Title2</exampleTitle>
> </author>
>
> Don't worry about answering if it's complicated! Like I said, I'm
> getting it the way I need by running it through a second stylesheet.
>
> Thanks,
> Joyce


please don't take things off list

probably you want to replace


<xsl:copy-of select="authorizedName,current-group()/(* except 
authorizedName)"/>
by

<xsl:for-each-group select="current-group()/*" group-by="concat(name(),' 
',.)">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each-group>

David

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