David,
At 07:53 PM 12/15/2003, you wrote:
> node:definition/*[not(name() = name(preceding-sibling::*))]
Why should this take a long time? Isn't this the same as
*[not(name() = name(preceding-sibling::*[last()]))]
You are correct -- a bug in my code. Given a node-set argument, name() will
operate on the first node in the set in document order (here,
preceding-sibling::*[last()]), which therefore won't de-duplicate properly.
So it won't take a long time, and it won't work either.
The key-based approach, or Ken's, will work however.
Thanks for your vigilance, David.
Cheers,
Wendell
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