Re: distinct values

In the Microsoft implementation the variable could be eliminated  with:

From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>...

 <xsl:template match="*">
   <xsl:if
test="not(from-preceding-siblings(*[qname(.)=context().qname(.)]))">
   [[<xsl:value-of select="qname(.)"/>]]
   </xsl:if>
 </xsl:template>

which leads me to:

 <xsl:template match="root">
    <xsl:choose>
       <xsl:when test="../*[(index() $lt$ context()!index()) $and$
(nodeName() = context()!nodeName())][0]">
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:node-name/>
       </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>

Which works!

My mistake was in try to approach the problem from a sorting perspective. It
is much easier just to test for membership in the set of previous nodes.

Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxxxxx



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