RE: [xsl] xsl filtering duplicate nodes

[Tom Melkonian <melkonian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually Jeni sent me the following which seems to be working for me....

Thanks for your help

Tom Melkonian

>One method would be to process all the Reference elements, but within
>the template or xsl:for-each test whether there was a preceding
>sibling with the same @id and @found as the current one, and only
>process the element if there isn't:
>
>   <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::Reference
>                       [@id = current()/@id and
>                        @found = current()/@found])">
>      ...
>   </xsl:if>


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:53 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl filtering duplicate nodes


The standard not(.=preceding-sibling::*) technique works only to eliminate
nodes with duplicate string-values, so it doesn't work here.

You're into Muenchian grouping, as described at www.jenitennison.com, or an
extension like the saxon:distinct() function.

Mike Kay

>
> I need to filter out only those nodes which have identical
> @id and @found
> attributes, or nodes which are exact duplicates of preceding
> nodes


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