On Mar 31, 11:17 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> WideBoy wrote:
> > I would like to sort and unique a list of elements that I extract from
> > an XMI file.
> > My xslt script successfully sorts the data but I need help in creating
> > a unique list.
>
> > A fragment of my xslt looks like this:
> >   ...
> >   <xsl:template name="ExtractDTs">
> >     <xsl:for-each select="/XMI/XMI.content/UML:Model/
> > UML:Namespace.ownedElement/UML:DataType/@name">
> >       <xsl:sort data-type="text" order="ascending"/>
> >       <xsl:choose>
> >         <xsl:when test="fn:ends-with(.,'Amount')">
>
> ends-with suggests you are using XSLT 2.0 so there you have
> xsl:for-each-group <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#xsl-for-each-group>
> as an instruction and the function distinct-values
> <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-distinct-values> to help
> you to find unique values.
>
> Here is an example using distinct-values, assuming the XML input looks
> like this:
>
> <root>
>    <item>1</item>
>    <item>0</item>
>    <item>5</item>
>    <item>2</item>
>    <item>1</item>
>    <item>4</item>
>    <item>0</item>
> </root>
>
> then this stylesheet
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>    version="2.0">
>
>    <xsl:output method="text"/>
>
>    <xsl:template match="root">
>      <xsl:for-each select="distinct-values(item)">
>        <xsl:sort select="." data-type="number"/>
>        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>        <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
>      </xsl:for-each>
>    </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> outputs
>
> 0
> 1
> 2
> 4
> 5
>
> --
>
>         Martin Honnen
>        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Martin,

Thank you very much for this neat solution.

Best regards,

Naran