Re: Lookup without document('') function

Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:04:34 -0500
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: Re: [xsl] Lookup without document('') function

David,
> If you don't have a document() function, the only nodes your
> stylesheet 
> can 
> see are in the input source.
>
> If you can put your lookup table in there, that'll work; otherwise
> you're 
> stuck.
Wendell, thanks for the response.  Technically I can probably put the
lookup table in the input source since I'm getting it back from a
Database Query.  One other question, is there any way to use XPath to
eliminate duplicates from a Node Set.  Since my XML I'm dealing with
looks something like:

<DGS>
   <BOOKMARKS>
       <TABLE>
           <BMTABLE>CMSCASE</BMTABLE>
       </TABLE>
       <TABLE>
           <BMTABLE>CMSCASE</BMTABLE>
       </TABLE>
       <TABLE>
           <BMTABLE>CMSCASE</BMTABLE>
       </TABLE>
       <TABLE>
           <BMTABLE>CMSCASE</BMTABLE>
       </TABLE>
       <TABLE>
           <BMTABLE>EMPREP</BMTABLE>
       </TABLE>
       <TABLE>
           <BMTABLE>EMPREP</BMTABLE>
       </TABLE>
   </BOOKMARKS>
</DGS>

Is there anyway to get a TABLE nodeset that would just return the
following using XPATH:

<TABLE>
    <BMTABLE>CMSCASE</BMTABLE>
    <BMTABLE>EMPREP</BMTABLE>
</TABLE>

I'll keep looking for an interface to a processor that supports the
document() function as that is the easiest way I can see in getting
this to work (the site this will be implemented on is using XALAN so I
don't have to worry about it when its in production).



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