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From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
David Montalvo
Sent: 07 March 2004 00:12
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] combining the children of similar nodes under one node
in the following example code, notice that all three nodes have the
same name. I want to combine all nodes with the same name
into one node
with all of their <style>s and <types>s, where <style> and <type> are
not duplicated.
You could do something like
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method = "xml"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="list"
select="/inventory/product/node()[not(.=following::product/node())]" />
<product>
<xsl:copy-of select="$list"/>
</product>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Gl, Jim Fuller
<inventory>
<product>
<name>chair</name>
<style>rocking</style>
</product>
<product>
<name>chair</name>
<type>rocking</type> --> same value as <style> above
</product>
<product>
<name>chair</name>
<style>folding</style>
<type>lawn</type>
</product>
</inventory>
When I'm in the first node, I grab it, when I'm in the second node, I
can check the preceding <style> value and skip it, when I'm in the
third node I grab it. That gives me:
<product>
<name>chair</name>
<style>rocking</style>
</product>
<product>
<name>chair</name>
<style>folding</style>
<type>lawn</type>
</product>
I figured out that, while in the second of these nodes, I can
check if
the preceding name is the same and, if so, get the preceding <style>
and add it to the second product node, giving me:
<product>
<name>chair</name>
<style>rocking</style>
</product>
<product>
<name>chair</name>
<style>rocking</style>
<style>folding</style>
<type>lawn</type>
</product>
but I still have 2 products with the name "chair". how can I get the
result:
<product>
<name>chair</name>
<style>rocking</style>
<style>folding</style>
<type>lawn</type>
</product>
One of the problems is that <style> and <type> are being used
interchangeably, but I think I compensated for that. My big
problem is
getting everything listed under one name with no duplicates.
-dave
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