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Michael,
I've got to use xslt 1.0. I was trying to adapt your examples for
cities. I thought the variable looked easier than the Muenchian
grouping.
Either way I'm not sure how to reference the 'preceding?' rolloverDate.
Regards
Jan

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 May 2008 15:33
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] Variable containing unique values


I don't know where you've been looking, but this code doesn't make sense
at
all. Sorting a sequence is never going to reduce the number of items in
the
sequence. (And the path expression used in xsl:sort should almost never
begin with "/", because that would typically mean that every item has
the
same sort key - or in your case, no sort key at all).

First decide whether you're using XSLT 1.0 or 2.0. This kind of thing is
MUCH easier in 2.0.

In XSLT 2.0, use xsl:for-each-group.

In XSLT 1.0, use Muenchian grouping, described at
http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hesselberth, Jan [mailto:Jan.Hesselberth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 May 2008 15:00
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Variable containing unique values
>
> I've read the book and looked at the examples but I can't
> manage to create a variable containing unique values for my
> xml. All I get is a list of all values.
> I need a variable containing unique values for rolloverDate.
> I've tried all sorts of rules for testing for current
> rolloverDate not being equal to previous rollover dates but I
> can't get it to work.
> Can you help please.
> Regards
> 	Jan Hesselberth
>
> The code I have is
>
> 	<xsl:variable name="unique-dates">
> 		<xsl:for-each
> 		select
> ="REPORT/Rollover/RolloverForecast/summaryAccount/element">
> 			<xsl:sort
> select="/rolloverDate[not(preceding::rolloverDate= current())]"/>
> 		<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> 		</xsl:for-each>
> 	</xsl:variable>
>
> The xml snippet looks like
>
> <summaryAccount id="12345">
> 	<isAutomatedRollover>N</isAutomatedRollover>
> 	<element id="1">
> 		<rolloverDate>2008-04-04</rolloverDate>
> 	</element>
> 	<element id="2">
> 		<rolloverDate>2008-04-04</rolloverDate>
> 	</element>
> </summaryAccount>
> <summaryAccount id="12346">
> 	<isAutomatedRollover>Y</isAutomatedRollover>
> 	<element id="1">
> 		<rolloverDate>2008-04-22</rolloverDate>
> 	</element>
> </summaryAccount>
> <summaryAccount id="12347">
> 	<isAutomatedRollover>Y</isAutomatedRollover>
> 	<element id="1">
> 		<rolloverDate>2008-04-22</rolloverDate>
> 	</element>
> 	<element id="2">
> 		<rolloverDate>2008-04-17</rolloverDate>
> 	</element>
> </summaryAccount>
>
>
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