sorry to post this again..
its a bit not clear for me how to sort this out..

tried doing something like..
<xsl:if test="not(name(.) = preceding::node()/name())">

From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  generalized unique element
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:08:34 +0100

> I thot of Muenchen way , but i stood back becase it requires to know the
> name of the element that has to be unique..

no it doesn't. You just need a key that matches "*" and uses a key value
of "name(.)"

David

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