Dear XSLT list,
Is there an easy way in XPath (not using XSLT instructions) to select only the
first occurrence of a specific value in a sequence of atomic values, so as to
return the sequence in the original order, but with re-occurrences of each
value after the first appearance of that value removed? For example, given an
input sequence:
('Matthew','Mark','Luke','Matthew','John')
I want to produce
('Matthew','Mark','Luke','John')
I can't rely on using distinct-values() because that isn't guaranteed to keep
specifically the *first* occurrence of a value.
In an XSLT context I can construct a temporary tree, poke each value into an
element, all on the same level in the hierarchy, and then test for:
*[not(preceding-sibling::* = .)]
but I don't know how to write an XPath predicate that will filter the sequence
of *atomic values* the way I want. Is this just a blind spot? Can anyone advise?
Thanks,
David
djbpitt(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
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