RE: select-distinct in for-each ?

On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Jarno Elovirta wrote:
>
> ...
> Works for me if your source should've used the c instead of x.
> 

Jarno,
  
Thanks for your help ... my test data was not
correctly described.  As it turns out .. *blush*
David's answer is right on (which is why it is in
the FAQ).  My problem was whitespace: some of my  
tags had <c> X </c> and others had <c>X</c>.  I've  
always thought of them as equivalent... but I guess 
not.  *sigh*

..

Can this be fixed? (remove whitespace matching problems?)

Rather than require this strict conformance for my
XML users, I tried to modify David's distinct-select
to use normalize(), only this seems to break things.
Without the "normalize" stuff, I get exactly
what I had expected "XYZ".  However, when I add
the "normalize() calls as below, it does not
seem to be doing the test ... "XXXXYZZ".

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
                xmlns:xt="http://www.jclark.com/xt"
                extension-element-prefixes="xt">
  <xsl:template match="root">
    <xsl:for-each select="//c[not(normalize(text())
                          =normalize(following::c/text()))]" >
      <xsl:sort order="ascending" select="." />
      <xsl:value-of select="." />
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

........

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <a>   
    <b id="101" >
      <c>X</c>
    </b>
    <b id="102" >
      <c>Y</c>
    </b>
    <b id="103" >
      <c>X</c>   
    </b>
    
    <b id="104" >
      <c>Z</c>
    </b>
      
    <b id="105" > 
      <c>Z</c> 
    </b>
    
    <b id="106" >
      <c>Z</c>
    </b>
  </a>
    
  <a>
    <b id="201" >
      <c>X</c>
    </b>
      
    <b id="202" >
      <c>Z</c>
    </b>
      
   </a> 
      
   <a>
     <b id="301" >
       <c>X</c>
     </b>
    
     <b id="302">
       <c>X</c>
     </b>
   </a>
</root>




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