On 27 Aug, 15:21, Barnum <bar...@bluezone.no> wrote:
> On 27 Aug, 14:23, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
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> > Barnum wrote:
> > > This is the XML input:
> > > <root>
> > > =A0 =A0<foo @name=3D"1">a</foo>
> > > =A0 =A0<foo @name=3D"1">b</foo>
> > > =A0 =A0<foo @name=3D"1">a</foo>
> > > =A0 =A0<foo @name=3D"2">c</foo>
> > > =A0 =A0<foo @name=3D"2">c</foo>
> > > =A0 =A0<foo @name=3D"2">d</foo>
> > > </root>
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> > I guess
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> > <root>
> > =A0 =A0 <foo name=3D"1">a</foo>
> > =A0 =A0 <foo name=3D"1">b</foo>
> > =A0 =A0 <foo name=3D"1">a</foo>
> > =A0 =A0 <foo name=3D"2">c</foo>
> > =A0 =A0 <foo name=3D"2">c</foo>
> > =A0 =A0 <foo name=3D"2">d</foo>
> > </root>
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> > is more what you have.
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> > > I expect to get only these nodes in fum:
> > > =A0 =A0<foo @name=3D"1">a</foo>
> > > =A0 =A0<foo @name=3D"1">b</foo>
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> > You simply need to apply the predicate @name =3D '1' e.g.
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> > =A0 =A0/root/foo[@name =3D '1'][not(. =3D preceding-sibling::foo[@name =
=3D '1'])]
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> > or in that template
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0<xsl:variable name=3D"fie" select=3D"$in/foo[@name=3D'1']" /=
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0<xsl:variable name=3D"fum" select=3D"$fie[not(. =3D
> > preceding-sibling::foo[@name =3D '1'])]" />
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> > Defining a key is also easy:
> > =A0 =A0<xsl:key name=3D"k1" match=3D"foo[@name =3D '1']" use=3D"."/>
> > then you can use Muenchian grouping with that key.
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> > --
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
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> Thanks, that worked!
> The thing I missed was to use the predicate [@name =3D '1'] also after
> the preceding-sibling::foo.
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> Thanks very much, this saved my day!=96 Skjul sitert tekst =96
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> =96 Vis sitert tekst =96

One follow-up, if I would want the distinct attributes (in this
example distinct @names) as opposed to elements, how would the
preceding-sibling predicate look?

Thanks!