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RE: Can XSLT remember the occurrence of an element?

Subject: RE: Can XSLT remember the occurrence of an element?
From: Thorsten Scherler <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:33:04 +0200
eliminating duplicates in xsl
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 18:52 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> > can XSLT remember the occurrence of an element?
> 
> XSLT is a declarative language, not a procedural one, so there is no notion
> of time in its processing model. There is no "before" and "after", and
> therefore no notion of memory.

I thought so. 

> 
> > Any ideas how I could change the xsl to only include *one* 
> > instance of a
> > contract despite it is *two or more* times called? 
> 
> The problem of eliminating duplicates is generally known as "grouping" and
> is covered in http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/

Thanks Michael for the link and the explanation. :)

cheers
-- 
thorsten

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