Hi Folks,
I have an XML document that consists of <row> elements:
<Document>
<row>
<x>1</x>
<y>2</y>
</row>
<row>
<x>3</x>
<y>4</y>
</row>
<row>
<x>1</x>
<y>2</y>
</row>
</Document>
I want to eliminate duplicate rows.
The XPath intersect operator is appealing:
$document intersect $document
because intersect eliminates duplicates. Unfortunately, that doesn't work
because row1 and row2 are "duplicates" only if they are the exact same <row>
element, i.e., same identity.
I need an intersection operator that eliminates duplicates based on value.
Since row[1] and row[3] above have the same elements with the same values,
they are duplicates.
Do you have a function that does intersection based on value, not identity?
Or, perhaps you recommend another way to eliminate duplicates?
/Roger
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