Hi,
Tempore 15:20:00, die 08/12/2005 AD, hinc in xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit Sreenath Juluri <jssreenath@xxxxxxxxx>:

My source xml looks something like this.
... Ill-formed XML

An attempt to construct well-formed XML out of it (please correct the namespace)
<xtvd xmlns="a">
<productionCrew>
<crew program="EP3297910048">
<member>
	<role>Actor</role>
	<givenname>Peter</givenname>
	<surname>McCauley</surname>
</member>
<member>
	<role>Actor</role>
	<givenname>Michael</givenname>
	<surname>Sinelnikoff</surname>
</member>
</crew>
<crew program="EP3556823923">
<member>
	<role>Director</role>
	<givenname>Michael</givenname>
	<surname>Sinelnikoff</surname>
</member>
<member>
	<role>Actor</role>
	<givenname>Michael</givenname>
	<surname>Offer</surname>
</member>
<member>
	<role>Executive Producer</role>
	<givenname>John</givenname>
	<surname>Landis</surname>
</member>
</crew>
</productionCrew>
</xtvd>

Now in my transformed xml there should be only one element for each
person irrespective of the role. for eg in the above piece of xml
there shud b only one element for Michael Sinelnikoff.

<xsl:key name="roleNames"
match="a:xtvd/a:productionCrew/a:crew/a:member"
use="concat(a:givenname,'+',a:surname)"/>

and a loop like this:
<xsl:for-each select="a:xtvd/a:productionCrew/a:crew/a:member
	[generate-id()=generate-id(key('roleNames',
		concat(a:givenname,'+',a:surname))[1])]
	/a:givenname">
</xsl:for-each>

regards,
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