Re: [xsl] What is a better word for "de-duplication"?

[Abel Online <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Melton wrote:

> I think that my serious suggestion a couple of days ago got lost 
> because of my joke.  The joke was "uniquify".  The serious suggestion 
> was "duplicate elimination".  That is very clear, not ambiguous, easy 
> to say, and doesn't depend on any vocabulary that requires further 
> explanation.

I'd go for "duplicates elimination". At first I didn't really got it: 
did you mean eliminating things twice (you only live twice, so you can 
die twice?) but then I saw it: you meant eliminating duplicates! ;)  
Since duplicates never arive one at a time (they wouldn't be duplicate 
(n) if they were), I think the plural is in place here.

> I doubt that as much as 5% of the users of XQuery, SQL, and even XSLT 
> will be able to figure out what "node factorisation" means -- heck, 
> even I'm uncertain why you think that the term is sufficiently 
> meaningful to seriously suggest it.

I admit, I confess! I belong to the other 95 %. I thought factorisation 
had something to do with the exclamation mark in mathematics: 5! = 
1*2*3*4*5 = 120. Or the other way around: finding unique factors gives 
you all prime numbers that multiplied together give you your query 
number (isn't that called factoring out a number?).

Cheers to you all,

Abel Braaksma
http://abelleba.metacarpus.com