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As David said, using the preceding axis is a very inefficient way of doing this. Use Muenchian grouping, described at www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping. Michael Kay > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Kloeck, Erwin > Sent: 10 September 2003 10:20 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: AW: XPATH restricting preceding nodes > > > > Hi, > > I made this XML document too simple in the last post. Entries > are not siblings! The XML document should rather something like this: > > <top> > <page> > <paragraph> > <entry text='aaa'/> > </paragraph> > <paragraph> > <entry text='bbb'/> > </paragraph> > <paragraph> > <entry text='aaa'/> > </paragraph> > </page> > <page> > <paragraph> > <entry text='ccc'/> > </paragraph> > <paragraph> > <entry text='bbb'/> *** > </paragraph> > <paragraph> > <entry text='ccc'/> > </paragraph> > </page> > </top> > > I only want to select entries with the same text once for > each page. For the first page I want to get only one > aaa-entry and one bbb-entry. For the second page I want to > get only one ccc-entry and ond bbb-entry. > > I did this with the following XPATH expression : > <xsl:for-each > select="ancestor::page/descendant::entry[not(@text = > preceding::entry/@text)]"> > > but then I don't get the bbb-entry for the second page. > I cannot figure out a way to restrict the preceding::entry > result set to the current page. What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks > > .............................. > > Erwin Kloeck > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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