Subject: RE: extracting unique elements
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:08:10 -0000
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> >> Is there any easy way to select only the unique elements from
> >> an xml document.
> >
> ><xsl:for-each select="//CUSTOMER[not(.=preceding::CUSTOMER)]">
> ><xsl:value-of select="."/>
> ></xsl:for-each>
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> Doesn't this require the CUSTOMER elements to be sorted?
>
No. you're testing whether the value is the same as ANY preceding customer,
not just the immediately preceding customer. For the latter you would write:
select="//CUSTOMER[not(.=preceding::CUSTOMER[1])]"
MHK
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