Hi,
I have this input xml:
<map>
<region>
<gridA id="1">
<blockA id="01" method="build">
<building1 id="x" method="build">
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
<building1 id="x" method="build"> <!-- this one
will be removed -->
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
</blockA>
<blockA id="01">
<building1 id="x" method="modify">
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
<building1 id="x" method="build"> <!-- this one
will be kept (prev node have same id but diff method so it's not
considered as successive -->
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
</blockA>
<blockA id="02">
<building3 id="y" method="modify">
<otherchild>b</otherchild>
</building3>
<building2 id="x" method="demolish"/>
</blockA>
<blockA id="01">
<building1 id="y" method="build"> <!-- this one
will be kept (diff id) -->
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
<building1 id="x" method="build"> <!-- this one
will be removed -->
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
</blockA>
<blockA id="02">
<building3 id="y" method="modify"> <!-- this one
will be removed -->
<otherchild>b</otherchild>
</building3>
<building2 id="x" method="demolish"/> <!-- this
one will be removed -->
</blockA>
</gridA>
<gridA id="2">
<blockA id="01" method="build">
<building1 id="x" method="build">
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
<building1 id="x" method="build"> <!-- this one
will be removed -->
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
<building1 id="x" method="build"> <!-- this one
will be kept (diff children) -->
<otherchild>b</otherchild>
</building1>
</blockA>
<blockA id="01">
<building1 id="x" method="build"> <!-- this one
will be removed -->
<otherchild>b</otherchild>
</building1>
</blockA>
</gridA>
<gridB id="1">
...and so on..
</gridB>
</region>
</map>
Expected Output:
<map>
<region>
<gridA id="1">
<blockA id="01" method="build">
<building1 id="x" method="build">
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
</blockA>
<blockA id="01">
<building1 id="x" method="modify">
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
<building1 id="x" method="build"> <!-- this one
will be kept (prev node have same id but diff method so it's not
considered as successive -->
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
</blockA>
<blockA id="02">
<building3 id="y" method="modify">
<otherchild>b</otherchild>
</building3>
<building2 id="x" method="demolish"/>
</blockA>
<blockA id="01">
<building1 id="y" method="build"> <!-- this one
will be kept (diff id) -->
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
</blockA>
<blockA id="02"/>
</gridA>
<gridA id="2">
<blockA id="01" method="build">
<building1 id="x" method="build">
<otherchild>a</otherchild>
</building1>
<building1 id="x" method="build"> <!-- this one
will be kept (diff children) -->
<otherchild>b</otherchild>
</building1>
</blockA>
<blockA id="01"/>
</gridA>
<gridB id="1">
...and so on..
</gridB>
</region>
</map>
The XSLT so far:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="region/*/*/*
[deep-equal(.,preceding::*[name()=current()/name()]
[@id = current()/@id]
[../../@id = current()/../../@id][1])]" />
</xsl:stylesheet>
the problem with the XSLT right now is that it cannot differentiate
duplicates that happens in siblings (i.e blockA with the same id).
I need to remove a node that are considered as *repetitive*.
**Two node that have the same `name` and `id` will be considered
*repetitive* if it appears one after another and it has the same
`method` and `children`.**
**for example:**
<elem id="1" method="a" />
<elem id="1" method="a" /> <!-- this is repetitive for id=1-->
<elem id="1" method="b" />
<elem id="1" method="a" /> <!-- this is the new boundary for removal id=1-->
<elem id="2" method="a" />
<elem id="1" method="a" /> <!-- this is repetitive for id=1 -->
<elem id="2" method="a" /> <!-- this is repetitive for id=2 -->
**will be simplified into:**
<elem id="1" method="a" />
<elem id="1" method="b" />
<elem id="1" method="a" /> <!-- this is the new boundary for removal id=1-->
<elem id="2" method="a" />
**- Everytime a successive node with the `same id` has `different method`,
the `boundary` for the next removal for that `id` is reset.**
- we need to take into account duplicates that are under one parent
or siblings (two or more parents nodes that has the same element name
and id) i.e (in example: `blockX`)
- if the two nodes being compared did not share the same `gridX`
level, then they should not be considered as duplicates to be removed
Please let me know how to achieve such transformation using XSLT.
Thanks very much for the help.
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