Karl,
At 01:59 PM 7/19/2005, you wrote:
Please keep in mind that for that the XSLT parser somehow would need to
"remember" that "...test text 1" has already been copied, so it always
avoids that this text is copied a second time somewhere later.
Actually the "XSLT Way" would be to decide which of the several copies you
would want in such a case (since they're all the same it doesn't matter, so
one ordinarily decides on the first), and simply copy that one and not the
others.
So on inspecting each copy the question would not be "has one like you
already been copied" but rather "are you the first (does one like you exist
earlier in the document)". This converts the problem from one of tracking
"state" in the transformation to simply a stateless query on the source --
which is what XSLT likes.
Also please
keep in mind that my actual content consists of about 10000 nodes which is
an issue of complexity.
Well, generally performance isn't a problem, except when it is. 10000 nodes
may not be very many. As you'll see from the helpful replies on this list,
we usually use keys for de-duplication problems like this in XSLT 1.0 --
primarily because they are very efficient at such things.
I know this doesn't actually answer your question! but I also know there
are many helpful contributors to this list.
Cheers,
Wendell
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