RE: [xsl] eliminating duplicates

[cknell@xxxxxxxxxx]

I had to wrap your edge elements in a root element to do this.

This is a special case solution. It will fail, for instance, in the case where two consecutive edge nodes have values for @source, @target, and @dependency that while compared individually are different, but when concatenated are the same.

Nonetheless, this may serve your need.

  <xsl:variable name="sorted-list">
    <xsl:for-each select="//edge">
      <xsl:sort select="@source" />
      <xsl:sort select="@target" />
      <xsl:sort select="@dependency" />
      <xsl:copy-of select="." />
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>


    <xsl:template match="/list">
      <list>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="$sorted-list/edge" />
      </list>
    </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="edge[not(concat(@source, @target, @dependency) = concat(preceding-sibling::edge[1]/@source, preceding-sibling::edge[1]/@target, preceding-sibling::edge[1]/@dependency))]">
  <xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:template>
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     Garvin Riensche <g.riensche@xxxxxxx>
Sent:     Thu, 10 May 2007 22:05:10 +0200
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  [xsl] eliminating duplicates

Hello,

I am wondering what's the best way of getting rid of duplicate nodes 
which contain more than one attribute. Suppose I have den following xml:


<edge source="IGetter" target="CGetter" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="IGetter" target="CGetter" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="IGetter" target="CCount" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="ICount" target="IGetter" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="ICount" target="CGetter" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="ICount" target="ICount" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="ICount" target="CCount" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="ICount" target="CCount" dependency="positive"/>

How do I get rid of one
<edge source="IGetter" target="CGetter" dependency="positive"/>
and one
<edge source="ICount" target="CCount" dependency="positive"/>
which appear twice?

If there was only one attribute, lets say "source" it would be simple:

<xsl:for-each 
select="//edge[not(./@source=preceding-sibling::edge/@source)]">
   <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>

So I thought with more attributes this would work:
<xsl:for-each select="//edge[not(./@source=preceding-sibling::edge/@source
		and ./@target=preceding-sibling::edge/@target
		and ./@dependency=preceding-sibling::edge/@dependency
		)]">
</xsl:for-each>

But of course it doesen't because in one iterartion the 
"preceding-siblings" doesn't point to the same element.

So, any help would be appreciated on how to get rid of duplicates.

Regards,
Garvin