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Tom Boyce

Subject: removing duplicates from xml wtih xslt
Author: Tom Boyce
Date: 16 Jul 2013 07:39 PM

I have a need to remove duplicate values in repeating nodes. I've found several examples around the web and studied them enough to try them in my project. When I do, I get the error: XTSE0010: An xsl:template element must not contain an xsl:key element. I'm uploading the source and xslt that's giving this error.

I feel pretty confident I've recreated the example properly. I'm not sure if this is a code problem or maybe some quirk with SS 2011. I"ve specified 1.0 and the example is for this version.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Vendor_Generic_XML.XML
Source xml

Vendor_Generic_XML(1).XML
xslt file

Ivan Pedruzzi

Subject: removing duplicates from xml wtih xslt
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 17 Jul 2013 01:02 PM

Tom

You have attached the input document twice but the XSLT is missing.

The error reported by Saxon seems to be pretty clear.

Are you sure that xsl:key is defined as direct child of xsl:stylesheet?

Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team

Tom Boyce

Subject: removing duplicates from xml wtih xslt
Author: Tom Boyce
Date: 17 Jul 2013 01:08 PM

I believe I did. sorry about the posting error, let me post the xslt

RemoveDups_Generic.xsl

Ivan Pedruzzi

Subject: removing duplicates from xml wtih xslt
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 17 Jul 2013 03:19 PM

I am not sure what you are trying to output but the XSLT contains several errors

1) on line 5 you have declared xsl:key under xsl:template, and as mentioned in previous post this shoudl be udenr xsl:stylesheet

2) the identity template tries to copy attribute after generating text nodes

3) xsl:copy should wrap all template body

Attached here you can find a syntactically correct version which does not mean that its output is what you want. but this is a far as we can go without seeing the desired result

Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team

RemoveDups_Generic_ivan.xsl

Tom Boyce

Subject: removing duplicates from xml wtih xslt
Author: Tom Boyce
Date: 17 Jul 2013 03:22 PM

I don't see the attachment.

Tom Boyce

Subject: removing duplicates from xml wtih xslt
Author: Tom Boyce
Date: 17 Jul 2013 03:22 PM

Tom Boyce

Subject: removing duplicates from xml wtih xslt
Author: Tom Boyce
Date: 17 Jul 2013 03:41 PM

Thanks for your response. I'm not very practiced at xslt so please be patient.

ok, when I run the changes you make I now get the error: SXXP0003: Error reported by XML parser: Content is not allowed in prolog.

at com.exln.stylus.CSaxon8Driver.doProcessing(CSaxon8Driver.java:281)
at com.exln.stylus.CProcessorDriver.process(CProcessorDriver.java:104)
Vendor_Generic_XML.XML (1, 1)

This is line 1
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:a="http://www.ibm.com/maximo">

I have to have this line in there.
when I run just the generic line for stylesheet i get this error:

SXXP0003: Error reported by XML parser: The prefix "xsl" for element "xsl:stylesheet" is not bound.

at com.exln.stylus.CSaxon8Driver.doProcessing(CSaxon8Driver.java:269)
at com.exln.stylus.CProcessorDriver.process(CProcessorDriver.java:104)

what I am trying to output is an xml file exactly like the input xml except with the duplicate values for the nodes under ABCD_COMPCODE elenent.

As an example in the original xml you have these elements/values where
<ABCD_COMPANYCODE>1223</ABCD_COMPANYCODE>
<ABCD_COMPANYNAME>ABCD Productions</ABCD_COMPANYNAME>

occur more than once. I want the duplicate nodes to be removed:

<ABCD_COMPCODE>
<ABCD_COMPANYCODE>1223</ABCD_COMPANYCODE>
<ABCD_COMPANYNAME>ABCD Productions Inc</ABCD_COMPANYNAME>
</ABCD_COMPCODE>
<ABCD_COMPCODE>
<ABCD_COMPANYCODE>1224</ABCD_COMPANYCODE>
<ABCD_COMPANYNAME>ABCD Regional TV Inc</ABCD_COMPANYNAME>
</ABCD_COMPCODE>
<ABCD_COMPCODE>
<ABCD_COMPANYCODE>1223</ABCD_COMPANYCODE>
<ABCD_COMPANYNAME>ABCD Productions Inc</ABCD_COMPANYNAME>
</ABCD_COMPCODE>
<ABCD_COMPCODE>
<ABCD_COMPANYCODE>1223</ABCD_COMPANYCODE>
<ABCD_COMPANYNAME>ABCD Productions Inc</ABCD_COMPANYNAME>
</ABCD_COMPCODE>

Ivan Pedruzzi

Subject: removing duplicates from xml wtih xslt
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 17 Jul 2013 08:47 PM

The input document had an extra character at the start of the file which made it not well formed

See solution attached

Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team

Vendor_Generic_XML_1.XML

RemoveDups_Generic_ivan(1).xsl

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