Re: [xsl] Selecting the node which have child without repition

[Piet van Oostrum <piet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

3 observations:

(1) The b node that is a 'duplicate' isn't a sibling in your example because it has a different parent.
(2) If you want only the first you should compare it with previous nodes, not following.
(3) From your direction I infer that you only should compare with other b nodes that have a c child.

I thing the following should do this, supposing that the example gives the general format of the document (e.g no b nodes in stray locations):

//b[child::c][not(./@name=preceding::b[child::c]/@name)]
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