Re: newbie - comparing attributes in nodes

I tried to follow the examples in the book and came up with variants as
below but none work. Can someone please help?

<xsl:for-each select="/Report/printCategory">
                        <xsl:if
test="not(@ID=preceding::printCategory/@ID)">
                        <fo:table-row>
                                <fo:table-cell>
                                        <fo:block>Print Category
<xsl:value-of select="@ID"/></fo:block>
                                </fo:table-cell>
                        </fo:table-row>
                        </xsl:if>

T:\ftemp>type jan.xml
<Report>
<printCategory ID="20"><TranName>FURTHER
ADVANCE</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory>
<printCategory ID="20"><TranName>INITIAL
DRAWDOWN</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory>
<printCategory ID="20"><TranName>RETENTION
RELEASE</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory>
<printCategory ID="21"><TranName>INTEREST
ADJUSTMENT</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory>
<printCategory ID="21"><TranName>INTEREST ADJUSTMENT
(CREDIT)</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory>
<printCategory ID="21"><TranName>INTEREST
CHARGED</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory>
<printCategory ID="21"><TranName>REDEMPTION INTEREST
CHARGED</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory>
<printCategory ID="22"><TranName>ARRANGEMENT
FEE</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory>
<printCategory ID="22"><TranName>FIXED RATE BOOKING
FEE</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory>
</Report>

T:\ftemp>type jan.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <fotable>
    <xsl:for-each select="/Report/printCategory">
      <xsl:if test="not(@ID=preceding::printCategory/@ID)">
        <fo:table-row>
          <fo:table-cell>
            <fo:block>Print Category
            <xsl:value-of select="@ID"/></fo:block>
          </fo:table-cell>
        </fo:table-row>
      </xsl:if>
      <fo:table-row>
        <fo:table-cell>
          <fo:block>
            <xsl:value-of select="TranName"/>
          </fo:block>
        </fo:table-cell>
      </fo:table-row>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </fotable>
</xsl:template>

T:\ftemp>type jan.fo
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fotable xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>Print Category
            20</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>FURTHER
ADVANCE</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>INITIAL
DRAWDOWN</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>RETENTION
RELEASE</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>Print Category
            21</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>INTEREST
ADJUSTMENT</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>INTEREST ADJUSTMENT
(CREDIT)</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>INTEREST
CHARGED</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>REDEMPTION INTEREST
CHARGED</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>Print Category
            22</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>ARRANGEMENT
FEE</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>FIXED RATE BOOKING
FEE</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</fotable>

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