I had to wrap your edge elements in a root element to do this.
This is a special case solution. It will fail, for instance, in the case where
two consecutive edge nodes have values for @source, @target, and @dependency
that while compared individually are different, but when concatenated are the
same.
Nonetheless, this may serve your need.
<xsl:variable name="sorted-list">
<xsl:for-each select="//edge">
<xsl:sort select="@source" />
<xsl:sort select="@target" />
<xsl:sort select="@dependency" />
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/list">
<list>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$sorted-list/edge" />
</list>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="edge[not(concat(@source, @target, @dependency) =
concat(preceding-sibling::edge[1]/@source, preceding-sibling::edge[1]/@target,
preceding-sibling::edge[1]/@dependency))]">
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:template>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Garvin Riensche <g(_dot_)riensche(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net>
Sent: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:05:10 +0200
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] eliminating duplicates
Hello,
I am wondering what's the best way of getting rid of duplicate nodes
which contain more than one attribute. Suppose I have den following xml:
<edge source="IGetter" target="CGetter" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="IGetter" target="CGetter" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="IGetter" target="CCount" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="ICount" target="IGetter" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="ICount" target="CGetter" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="ICount" target="ICount" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="ICount" target="CCount" dependency="positive"/>
<edge source="ICount" target="CCount" dependency="positive"/>
How do I get rid of one
<edge source="IGetter" target="CGetter" dependency="positive"/>
and one
<edge source="ICount" target="CCount" dependency="positive"/>
which appear twice?
If there was only one attribute, lets say "source" it would be simple:
<xsl:for-each
select="//edge[not(./@source=preceding-sibling::edge/@source)]">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
So I thought with more attributes this would work:
<xsl:for-each select="//edge[not(./@source=preceding-sibling::edge/@source
and ./@target=preceding-sibling::edge/@target
and ./@dependency=preceding-sibling::edge/@dependency
)]">
</xsl:for-each>
But of course it doesen't because in one iterartion the
"preceding-siblings" doesn't point to the same element.
So, any help would be appreciated on how to get rid of duplicates.
Regards,
Garvin
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