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Re: [xsl] How to make this XSL transformation consider only for siblings with the same id?

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On 22 June 2012 02:50, Jo Na <jkoe888@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have this input in XML:
>
> <myroot>
>    <nodeA id="a">
>        <section id="i">
>            <item1 id="1" method="create">
>                <otherchild>a</otherchild>
>            </item1>
>        </section>
>
>        <section id="ii">
>        <item1 id="1" method="stop">
>                <otherchild>a</otherchild>
>            </item1>
>            <item1 id="1" method="create">
>                <otherchild>a</otherchild>
>            </item1>
>        </section>
>
>        <section id="i">
>            <item1 id="1" method="create">
>                <otherchild>a</otherchild>
>            </item1>
>        </section>
>    </nodeA>
> </myroot>
>
> and the expected Output is:
> <myroot>
>    <nodeA id="a">
>        <section id="i">
>            <item1 id="1" method="create">
>                <otherchild>a</otherchild>
>            </item1>
>        </section>
>
>        <section id="ii">
>            <item1 id="1" method="stop">
>                <otherchild>a</otherchild>
>            </item1>
>            <item1 id="1" method="create">
>                <otherchild>a</otherchild>
>            </item1>
>        </section>
>
>        <section id="i"/>
>    </nodeA>
> </myroot>
>
>
> I have this XSLT 2.0 :
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>    <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
>    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>
>    <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
>        <xsl:copy>
>            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
>        </xsl:copy>
>    </xsl:template>
>
>    <xsl:template match="*[*]
>         [deep-equal(.,
>           preceding::*[name()=current()/name()]
>                       [@id = current()/@id]
>                       [../../@id = current()/../../@id]
>                       [1])]" />
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> I need to remove successive duplicate node. And right now the xslt is
> taking all the siblings (section) although it has different id.
>
> How to fix the xslt 2.0 to consider only sibling (section) with the
> same id only?

Use a key that matches on item1 and uses the the parent @id and string
value and attributes joined together.

Then in your item1 matching template test to see if that item1 is the
first return from the key, if it is copy it to the result, if it isn't
suppress it.



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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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