Re: Identifying duplicate nodes within a branch

Thank you, Michael!  That worked perfectly.Whew. I can't tell you how
grateful I am.

Best regards,
Mark


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Michael Ludwig <mlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mark Peters schrieb:
>>
>> Now I'm trying to identify the <column> nodes where duplicate @id
>> values exist. Where there are duplicates, I'd like to include the
>> nodes where the @file value is "doc." But the output should also
>> include the unique column nodes, all of which have a @file value of
>> "dev."
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> the following seems to do the trick:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>  <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
>  <xsl:key name="columns-by-id" match="column" use="@id"/>
>
>  <xsl:template match="column[ @file = 'dev' ]">
>    <xsl:if test="
>      generate-id() =
>      generate-id( key( 'columns-by-id', @id)[1])">
>      <xsl:copy>
>        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>      </xsl:copy>
>    </xsl:if>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>    <xsl:copy>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>    </xsl:copy>
>  </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Michael Ludwig
>
>



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Mark Peters
Senior Technical Writer
Saba Software