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Re: [xsl] "not a node item" inside distinct-values

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On 6/8/06, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

but if
you find yourself doing this:

> <xsl:for-each select="distinct-values(//item/@racknum)">
>         <xsl:variable name="rack-num" select="."/>
>         <xsl:variable name="pocket-num" select="//item[./@racknum =
> $rack-num and position() = last()]"/>

9 times out of 10 its easier (and probably more efficient) to do


<xsl:for-each-group select="//item" group-by="@racknum">

As I also pointed in another similar thread yesterday.

distinct-values() can sometimes be confusing (AFAIR there is
atomization involved, and, of course, context is lost).

To summarize: the result of distinct-values() is that you get an
unordered! bunch of scalar values. Context is lost. Any order is lost.

You have to either:

manually maintain context and re-establish order, or

better, use xsl:for-each-group

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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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