Nikolas Nehmer wrote:
What
I need is a select construct which selects the first occurence of an
element tag name (tag name is not fixed) for all direct children of the
root.
Sounds like a grouping problem. There are several approaches,
I think Muenchean grouping is the simplest way here:
<xsl:key name="name" match="/*/*" use="name()"/>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[generate-id()=
generate-id(key('name',name())[1])]/>
</xsl:template>
See Jeni's page and the XSL FAQ for more hints:
http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/index.html
J.Pietschmann
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