delete duplicate elements

[bee123]

Hello,

I have a large file and have found that some elements are in it twice, now I would like to delete the duplicates. any ideas what I could do? Would appreciate any help!

The xml looks like this:

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<Toptag>

<text coordinates="" country="" date="yyyy-mm-dd" lang="" place="xyc" time="" id=" 123"  name="xyz" >

<div>

This is text

</div>

</text>

<text coordinates="" country="" date="yyyy-mm-dd" lang="" place="xyc" time="" id=" 124"  name="xyz" >

<div>

This is text

</div>

</text>

<text coordinates="" country="" date="yyyy-mm-dd" lang="" place="xyc" time="" id=" 123"  name="xyz" >

<div>

This is text

</div>

</text>

....

</toptag>

In the duplicates, everything from the <text...............> <div> </div> </text> is exactly the same!

Thank you!!!!!!

[Radu]

Hi,

There is an XSLT function called "deep-equal" which might help.
Something like this:

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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"

    version="2.0">

    <xsl:template match="node() | @*">

        <xsl:copy>

            <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>

        </xsl:copy>

    </xsl:template>

    

    <xsl:template match="*">

        <xsl:variable name="current" select="."/>

        <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*[deep-equal(., $current)])">

            <xsl:copy>

                <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>

            </xsl:copy>

        </xsl:if>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Radu