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Re: [xsl] How to do this tricky elimination on XML using XSLT 2.0?

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> I need to remove a node that are considered as *repetitive*.
>
> **Two node that have the same `name` and `id` will be considered
> *repetitive* if it appears one after another and it has the same
> `method` and `children`.**
>
> **for example:**
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>     <elem id="1" method="a" />
>     <elem id="1" method="a" /> <!-- this is repetitive for id=1-->
>     <elem id="1" method="b" />
>     <elem id="1" method="a" /> <!-- this is the new boundary for removal
id=1-->
>     <elem id="2" method="a" />
>     <elem id="1" method="a" /> <!-- this is repetitive for id=1 -->
>     <elem id="2" method="a" /> <!-- this is repetitive for id=2 -->
>
> **will be simplified into:**
>
>     <elem id="1" method="a" />
>     <elem id="1" method="b" />
>     <elem id="1" method="a" /> <!-- this is the new boundary for removal
id=1-->
>     <elem id="2" method="a" />

This looks like its a group-adjacent or sibling-recursion problem,
sorry I can't look into it more but that might help get you going.



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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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