Subject: Re: [xsl] What does //distinct-values(...) mean? From: "G. Ken Holman g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 13:21:51 -0000 |
Hi Martin,
But, but, but, ...
I thought that // operates on nodes. The distinct-values function doesn't return nodes, does it? I thought it returns a sequence of strings. If so, then how can // operate on a sequence of strings?
/Roger
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From: Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [EXT] Re: [xsl] What does //distinct-values(...) mean?
Am 08.04.2020 um 14:19 schrieb Costello, Roger L. costello@xxxxxxxxx:
> Hi Folks,
> I executed this XPath query in Oxygen:
> //distinct-values(//Row[matches(Advertiser, 'TS3', 'i')]/Subscribers)
> The two slashes at the beginning were an accident. At the bottom of the screen Oxygen shows the matches. All of a sudden it showed 111,000 matches, then a moment later 438,000 matches, and then finally 525,946 matches.
> "Yikes!" I thought, "What is going on? There is supposed to be around 17 matches. How can there be half a million matches?"
> Then I saw the two slashes at the start.
> "Hmm, what is the meaning of two slashes preceding the distinct-values function?" I thought.
> So, I ask you: what is the meaning of two slashes preceding the distinct-values function? Why does its evaluation result in so many matches?
// is short for /descendant-or-self::node()/ so
//distinct-values(//Row[matches(Advertiser, 'TS3', 'i')]/Subscribers)
is
/descendant-or-self::node()/distinct-values(//Row[matches(Advertiser,
'TS3', 'i')]/Subscribers)
meaning it returns
distinct-values(//Row[matches(Advertiser, 'TS3', 'i')]/Subscribers)
as many times as the document has any nodes selectable by
/descendant-or-self::node().
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