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Re: [xsl] Ordered union of sequences

2010-04-08 08:40:49
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Michael Müller-Hillebrand
<mmh(_at_)cap-studio(_dot_)de> wrote:
Hello experts,

I tried hard to come up with a good subject, but maybe I failed. I am looking 
for pointers and terms that I can use for further research. The task at hand, 
which I plan to solve in XSLT2, is the creation of a combined master sequence 
of a number of sequences in a way so the internal order of sequence items 
(identified by their name) is preserved (and inconsistencies can be reported).

There is an arbitrary number of sequences, sometimes containing items with 
the same name:

(k, o, p, c, f)
(d, e, f, g)
(k, f, z, o)
(a, b, c, d)

I want to create a master sequence which contains every item once, preserving 
the original order.

There are many possibilities for inconsistencies (like above the item "o" 
appears before and after "f", which should be detected as an inconsistency) 
and obviously there is more than one possible solution. Luckily I am only 
interested in one solution, e.g.:

(a, b, k, o, p, c, d, e, f, z, g)


But this is *not* preserving the original order !

You need to define the problem correctly.



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The XSLT union operator treats sequences like unordered sets and only solves 
the problem of removing duplicates.

BTW, the idea behind this is to create part of an XML Schema from evaluating 
document instances.

I am thankful for any pointers,

- Michael Müller-Hillebrand

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