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Subject: Re: sort | uniq via keys
From: Saverio Perugini <sperugin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:18:54 -0500 (EST)
via keys
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Wendell Piez wrote:

> Another way is by ordering the way you traverse the tree, and using keys as
> you are now doing only to control the uniqueness.
>
> (Of course, it's still going to test uniqueness relative to the entire
> document, not just to the level you're on; if you want the latter, you have
> to use different keys as above.)
>
> The much maligned and abused <xsl:for-each> can be applied to this. From
> the root, for-each select="*" will get you only one level deep,
> select="*/*" will get you only two levels deep, and so on. (In these
> XPaths, the child:: axis is implicit, so e.g. */* is short for
> child::*/child::*, that is grandchildren.)

I prefer this approach because I do want uniqueness relative to the entire
document.  Does this approach however require me to know a-priori how deep the
tree is so I know how many */*/.../* to include?

Thank You and Best Regards,

Saverio Perugini


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