distinct values

I've been unable to come up with a way to select the distinct children of a
node.

Sample data:

<root>
    <nodeA/>
    <nodeA/>
    <nodeB/>
    <nodeB/>
    <nodeA/>
    <nodeC/>
    <nodeA/>
    <nodeD/>
    <nodeD/>
</root>

I would like to find the first occurrence of each node type.

    <nodeA/>
    <nodeB/>
    <nodeC/>
    <nodeD/>

I've been trying to do this with the current Microsoft release without
success.

Is there a solution that works in the Microsoft implementation?
Is there a way to do this in the current draft without using variables?

Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxxxxx



 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list