Re: find Unique Nodes based on 2 Attributes

why not use an 'and' to connect 2 tests together ?

cheers, jim fuller

----- Original Message -----
From: "Damian Mcbride" <damian.mcbride@xxxxxxxx>
To: <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:56 PM
Subject:  find Unique Nodes based on 2 Attributes


> I can select a unique node when it is based on one attribute value, but
when
> I try to do this with two attribute values I run in to trouble.
>
> Example XML
>
> <Alert>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="001" language="fr" alertmethod="SMS"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="002" language="en" alertmethod="SMS"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="003" language="en" alertmethod="SMS"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="004" language="de" alertmethod="email"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="005" language="It" alertmethod="NokiaSmart"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="006" language="It" alertmethod="NokiaSmart"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="007" language="de" alertmethod="NokiaSmart"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="008" language="de" alertmethod="SMS"/>
> </Alert>
>
>
> XSL command
> <xsl:apply-templates select="Subscriber[not
> (@language=following::Subscriber/@language)]"/>
>
> The effect of this command is to select the following nodes
> <Subscriber phonenumber="001" language="fr" alertmethod="SMS"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="003" language="en" alertmethod="SMS"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="006" language="It" alertmethod="NokiaSmart"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="008" language="de" alertmethod="SMS"/>
>
>
>
> I'd like to be able to select unique nodes based on both the language and
> alertmethod attributes.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how you might change this command to allow it
> select a unique node based on both language and alertmethod attributes.
>
>
> I would expect this result
> <Subscriber phonenumber="001" language="fr" alertmethod="SMS"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="003" language="en" alertmethod="SMS"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="004" language="de" alertmethod="email"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="006" language="It" alertmethod="NokiaSmart"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="007" language="de" alertmethod="NokiaSmart"/>
> <Subscriber phonenumber="008" language="de" alertmethod="SMS"/>
>
>
>
>
>
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