Re: [xsl] Can someone explain this generate-id and key xsl fragment to me?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Can someone explain this generate-id and key xsl fragment to me?
From: Michael Sokolov <msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:53:56 -0500
On 2/28/14 2:34 PM, David Carlisle wrote:
On 28/02/2014 18:17, russurquhart1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

<xsl:for-each select="//errata_section[generate-id(.)=generate-id(key('module-index', module_impacted)[1])]">
<xsl:sort select="module_impacted"/>





That is the standard idiom known as Muenchian grouping (google for it) that was used to group items (or remove duplicates0 in XSLT 1. It is largely replaced by xsl:for-each-group in XSLT2.


well thanks for setting the record straight :)

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