Re: Outputing a node whose value appears only once

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Subject: Re: Outputing a node whose value appears only once
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:14:02 -0400

At 2005-07-18 21:00 -0700, Mukul Gandhi wrote:

I am trying to eliminate duplicates with the following
logic..
...
   <xsl:for-each select="(a/* | c/*)[not((. =
preceding-sibling::a) | (. = preceding-sibling::c) |
(. = following-sibling::a) | (. =
following-sibling::a))]">
...
Saxon 8.4 is giving error -
Error on line 7 of
file:/C:/xml/xsleg/xslt/example1.xsl:
  XPTY0004: Required item type of first operand of '|'
is node(); supplied value
 has item
  type xs:boolean

Whereas Xalan-J 2.6.0 gives following error -
Error at xsl:for-each on line 7 of
file:///C:/xml/xsleg/xslt/example1.xsl:
  The value is not a node-set

Can anyone tell where is the problem?

The error messages are unambiguous and say it all ... you are trying to use the union operator with an operand that is not a node set.

And how I can solve it?

You are using "|" as "or" and that isn't part of the XPath syntax for boolean operators ... "|" is *only* for the union of node sets.

If I've guessed your intent correctly you probably want:

<xsl:for-each select="(a/* | c/*)[not((. = preceding-sibling::a) or (. = preceding-sibling::c) or (. = following-sibling::a) or (. = following-sibling::a))]">

This is a *very* common misconception by my XSLT students who are trying to use "or" in my in-class exercises and type "|" because of their programming background.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . Ken

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RE: Outputing a node whose value appears only once, (continued)
- Michael Kay - 19 Jul 2005 02:26:44 -0000
- Mukul Gandhi - 19 Jul 2005 04:00:33 -0000
  - Michael Kay - 19 Jul 2005 04:08:55 -0000
- Mukul Gandhi - 19 Jul 2005 04:00:52 -0000
  - G. Ken Holman - 19 Jul 2005 04:14:58 -0000 <=
- Mukul Gandhi - 19 Jul 2005 04:37:50 -0000
- Jonathan Marenus - 19 Jul 2005 05:06:30 -0000
  - Michael Kay - 19 Jul 2005 05:30:37 -0000
  - Mukul Gandhi - 19 Jul 2005 06:00:03 -0000

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