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At 2005-03-04 13:18 +0100, Henning Waack wrote:
As Mike mentioned, the variable-based grouping method can be used in XSLT 1.0 across multiple documents.
I hope the example below helps.
......................... Ken
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
Re: [xsl] copy without duplicates
Subject: Re: [xsl] copy without duplicates From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:11:53 -0500 |
At 2005-03-04 13:18 +0100, Henning Waack wrote:
I have the following problem. I have a XML-file which needs to be copied as it is, except, that each element must occur only once!
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So the input document references two more documents, which should be processed and copied to the result, too.
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Is it possible to do this with XSLT 1.0 in one stylesheet? I have already a two-stylesheet-solution, but one stylesheet would be nicer.
As Mike mentioned, the variable-based grouping method can be used in XSLT 1.0 across multiple documents.
I hope the example below helps.
......................... Ken
T:\ftemp>type input.xml <elements> <a/> <b/> <link location="extern1.xml"/> <c/> <a/> <link location="extern2.xml"/> <b/> <e/> </elements>
T:\ftemp>type extern1.xml <elements> <a/> <f/> </elements>
T:\ftemp>type extern2.xml <elements> <g/> <f/> </elements>
T:\ftemp>type henning.xsl <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/"> <elements> <!--collect all items to be sorted into a variable--> <xsl:variable name="items" select="/elements/*[not(self::link)] | document(/elements/link/@location)/elements/*"/> <!--loop through all, acting only on the first of each unique value--> <xsl:for-each select="$items"> <xsl:if test="generate-id(.)= generate-id($items[name(.)=name(current())])"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:if> </xsl:for-each> </elements> </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet> T:\ftemp>saxon input.xml henning.xsl <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <elements> <a/> <b/> <c/> <e/> <f/> <g/> </elements> T:\ftemp>
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