Hi, Jason:

  You can achieve what you needed using preceding axis
like the following:
<distinct>
<xsl:for-each
select="root/node[not(.=preceding::node)]">
	<node><xsl:value-of select="."/></node>
</xsl:for-each>
</distinct>

Xiaocun

--- Jason Macki <jmacki@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering anyone can suggest a way that XSL
> can select a set of
> distinct values from an XML document, similar to a
> "Select DISTINCT"
> command in SQL.
> 
> For example, I'd like to transform this:
> 
> <root>
> 	<node>a</node>
> 	<node>b</node>
> 	<node>c</node>
> 	<node>a</node>
> 	<node>b</node>
> 	<node>c</node>
> 	<node>a</node>
> 	<node>b</node>
> 	<node>c</node>
> 	<node>a</node>
> 	<node>b</node>
> 	<node>c</node>
> 	<node>d</node>
> </root>
> 
> Into this =>
> 
> <distinct>
> 	<node>a</node>
> 	<node>b</node>
> 	<node>c</node>
> 	<node>d</node>
> </distinct>
> 
> Thanks, 
>     Jason
> 
>  XSL-List info and archive: 
> http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> 


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