Re: [xsl] Keys with duplicates should be simple

Subject: Re: [xsl] Keys with duplicates should be simple
From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:34:41 -0800
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/201211/msg00170.html
>
> OP is using XSLT 2. OP only wants to find what things have duplicates.
> Thats not a grouping problem, it's a problem that a certain variant of
> for-each-group happens to solve but it's not the simplest way of
> solving it.

 "Things that have duplicates" is exactly what we shouldn't be seeing
here -- to ambiguous (things, duplicates).

And "simple" is also very subjective. Do you mean "short", or what?
Does "simple" also mean efficient? Or should efficiency be of lower
priority?

As for "Things that have duplicates" -- see this -- just XPath 2 --
not even XSLT:


     http://stackoverflow.com/a/287360/36305



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