Re: select-distinct in for-each ?

Hi,

David Carlisle's solution does work for me (I'm using LotusXSL 0.18.2 with
Sun's parser), nor Clark Evans's (I always get XXXXYZZ, whether I use
normalize() or not).

The only difference with the Evan's example is the stylesheet tag :
  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
                xmlns:lxslt="http://xsl.lotus.com/">

Am I doing something wrong? How could I get XYZ instead of XXXXYZZ?

Tangi Vass

----- Original Message -----
From: Clark C. Evans <clark.evans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, 03 October, 1999 10:59
Subject: 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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