Hi, Gareth:

	If I understand what you want correctly, you should able to pick up
the distinct elements with something like: 
		//prompt[not(.=preceding::prompt)]

Xiaocun Xu
xxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



> -----Original Message-----
> From: GarethS@xxxxxxxx [mailto:GarethS@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:24 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: distinct filtering
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings folks.  I'm brand new to the list, and have only 
> been into xsl for
> the last week and a half here, so I hope I don't come across 
> as completely
> clueless.
> 
> I have an xml Document that looks like the following:
> 
> <PAGE_INFO>
> 	<ORDER>
> 		<REQUEST>
> 			<REQUIREMENT listsequence="1">
> 				<PROMPT>prompt 1</PROMPT>
> 			</REQUIREMENT>
> 			<REQUIREMENT listsequence="2">
> 				<PROMPT>prompt 2</PROMPT>
> 			</REQUIREMENT>
> 		</REQUEST>
> 		<REQUEST>
> 			<REQUIREMENT listsequence="2">
> 				<PROMPT>prompt 2</PROMPT>
> 			</REQUIREMENT>
> 			<REQUIREMENT listsequence="3">
> 				<PROMPT>prompt 3</PROMPT>
> 			</REQUIREMENT>
> 		</REQUEST>
> 	</ORDER>
> </PAGE_INFO>
> 
> I am trying to display the data in the <PROMPT> tag of each 
> requirement, but
> I need to somehow filter the data so that I only display each 
> list sequence
> once. In other words, I want to display
> 
> prompt 1
> prompt 2
> prompt 3
> 
> I am using Microsofts 3.0 xsl parser to transform the 
> document to html on
> the server, before sending the document to the browser.
> 
> Gareth Suarez
> gareths@xxxxxxxx  
> 
> 
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