Removing duplicate elements a-priori?

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Subject: Removing duplicate elements a-priori?
From: Gordon Vidaver <gvidaver@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:43:18 -0400

Hi, I'm trying to remove duplicate elements from an output document. I've seen the examples for doing this in the archives, but they all seem to assume some knowledge of the structure of the input document. For example:

	<xsl:for-each select="item[not(.=preceding-sibling::item)]"> 	
	  <xsl:sort/>

But with this you need to know that there is an element named "item" in the input.

For example I want to take :

	<doc>
	<employee>Bill</employee>
	<employee>Andy</employee>
	<employee>John</employee>	
	</doc>

And produce just :

	<doc>
	<employee>Bill</employee>
	</doc>

without knowing that there is an employee tag in the input.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Gordon Vidaver

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Removing duplicate elements a-priori? Gordon Vidaver - Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:43:18 -0400 <= Jeni Tennison - Sun, 18 Jun 2000 10:14:22 +0100 <Possible follow-ups> Kay Michael - Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:28:09 +0100 Gordon Vidaver - Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:35:19 -0400 Jeni Tennison - Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:32:06 +0100

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