Re: [xsl] Lookup, eliminating duplicates and sorting

["Manfred Staudinger" <manfred.staudinger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/07/06, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dimitre's solution is brilliant..
>
> Here is a solution using the node-set extension function:
Sorry, I didn't state it explicitly, I need xslt 1.0 for browsers (no
extensions),
but thanks anyway.

On 19/07/06, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > xslt 1.0 - I've a set of nodes, for which I want
> > a. to replace some values (most will not change), then
> > b. eliminate the duplicates and sort them.
> ..............................................................................
> > The text nodes represent URI's and are then used to
> > create html links. So far I was only able to write in
> > 2 different task what should be done in one:
> >
>
>
> One simple way to do this:
>
> The following transformation:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
>
>  <xsl:key name="kb" match="b[not(. = ../../e2/f/@c)]"  use="."/>
>  <xsl:key name="kb" match="@b1" use="../../../e1/b[. = current()/../@c]"/>
>   <xsl:key name="kDist" match="b | @b1" use="."/>
>
>         <xsl:template match="/">
>           <e3>
>             <xsl:for-each select="key('kb', */e1/b)[generate-id() =
>                                 generate-id(key('kDist', .)[1])]">
>               <xsl:sort/>
>
>         <b2><xsl:value-of select="."/></b2>
>       </xsl:for-each>
>           </e3>
>         </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> when applied on the provided source xml document:
>
> <a>
>         <e1>
>                 <b>abc</b>
>                 <b>abd</b>
>                 <b>abe</b>
>                 <b>abf</b>
>                 <b>abg</b>
>                 <b>abh</b>
>                 <b>abd</b>
>         </e1>
>         <e2>
>                 <f c="abe" b1="abc"/>
>                 <f c="abf" b1="abj"/>
>                 <f c="abg" b1="abi"/>
>                 <f c="abh" b1="abi"/>
>         </e2>
> </a>
>
> produces the wanted result:
>
> <e3>
>         <b2>abc</b2>
>         <b2>abd</b2>
>         <b2>abi</b2>
>         <b2>abj</b2>
> </e3>
I'm still fascinated by Dimitre's solution. I also tried a first modification
(but without success): <e1> represents a response from a web service,
but <e2> is supplied by me and fairly static. So it would make sense to
put it in a separate document (teste2.xml), to enable the browser to cache it.
       <e2>
               <f c="abe" b1="abc"/>
               <f c="abf" b1="abj"/>
               <f c="abg" b1="abi"/>
               <f c="abh" b1="abi"/>
       </e2>
The first key definition
  <xsl:key name="kb" match="b[not(. = ../../e2/f/@c)]"  use="."/>
I assume should become
  <xsl:key name="kb" match="b[not(.
=document('teste2.xml')/e2/f/@c)]"  use="."/>
but I have no idea how to change the second
  <xsl:key name="kb" match="@b1" use="../../../e1/b[. = current()/../@c]"/>
How can I get a xpath expression for the (primary) source document if the
context is in another source document?
Regards, Manfred