rottyguy70@y... wrote:
> here is a better example:
> 
> assume i have the following:
> 
> 1) static xml
> <items>
>   <item id="1" type="clothes"/>
>   <item id="2" type="cars"/>
>   <item id="3" type="tvs"/>
> </items>
> 
> ** this should be easy
> 
> 2) i need to derive a unique set from the following:
> <new-items>
>   <new-item type="house"/>
>   <new-item type="boats"/>
> </new-items>
> 
> <new-items>
>   <new-item type="windows"/>
>   <new-item type="boats"/>
> </new-items>
> 
> ** i can use muenchian to get uniques
> 
> 2b) i need to combine (1) with (2) to get:
> <items>
>   <item id="1" type="clothes"/>
>   <item id="2" type="cars"/>
>   <item id="3" type="tvs"/>
>   <item id="4" type="house"/>
>   <item id="5" type="boats"/>
>   <item id="6" type="windows"/>
> </items>
> 
> *** i'm unsure how to do this and in particular concat the 2 maps and
> gen the sequential id's for house, boats, and windows.

Well, as your lists aren't uniform, you have to transform 2 to 1 form. 
Just transform to a variable and then convert it to nodeset using 
msxsl:node-set() function.

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