XPath expression to derive list of distinct element na

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Subject: XPath expression to derive list of distinct element names
From: Sean McMurray <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 12:48:07 -0700

I need an XPath expression that will return a list of node names it the tree frag. I want the names to be distinct.

The best I can come up with is:
   "*[local-name() != local-name(preceding-sibling::*)]"

But the local-name function only gives the name of the first node in the nodeset.

This is really an XPath question. I'm not doing this in XSL, so I can't use templates or any other non-XPath construct. It needs to be a single XPath expression.

Thanks for any help.

XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

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XPath expression to derive list of distinct element names Sean McMurray - Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:40:50 -0500 (EST) <= Michael Kay - Thu, 10 Jan 2002 05:37:44 -0500 (EST) David Carlisle - Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:30:20 -0500 (EST) <Possible follow-ups> Joerg Pietschmann - Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:57:35 -0500 (EST)

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