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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:14 AM, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/03/2014 23:42, Ihe Onwuka wrote: >> >> As suspected it was possible to avoid grouping. See the predicate >> tacked on to B/Date. >> >> Thanks all. >> >> <xsl:apply-templates select="A/Date | B/Date[not(A/Date/text() = text())]> >> <xsl:sort select="." order="ascending"/> >> </xsl:apply-templates> > > > > > It seems unlikely that that predicate is ever going to be true (unless you > have a structure like > you are almost certainly right there. > > I suspect you intended > > <xsl:apply-templates select="A/Date | B/Date[not(current()/A/Date/text() = > text())]> > I was inclined to post a description of the solution rather than code, but I posted abbreviated code for illustrative purposes. The actual implementation was something like <xsl:variable name="aDate" select="A/Date"/> <xsl:apply-templates select="$aDate | B/Date[not($aDate/text() = text())]/> but showing the variable caching of A/Date doesn't add to what I was trying to illustrate (which ironically was the simplicity of the alternative I opted for). In effect I abused the fact that the mailing list is neither compiler nor interpreter and posted psuedo-code. I think this is equivalent to what you have above. It worked anyway. > > But unlike muenchian grouping or xsl-for-each (both of which actually have a > simpler syntax than this) > The for-each syntax is more verbose. Muenchian grouping is not something I burden my short term memory with because I hardly ever use it and and it's a phrase that is meaningless beyond a very select cognoscenti. What I posted can literally be described to a layman - add all the B/Dates that aren't in the set of A/Dates additionally it literally translates it into a set-theoretic A union (B diff A) That's why I prefer it. > > this will (unless you have a very aggressively > optimising XSLT engine) be quadratic in performance as the full A list is > going to be searched for every B. > good point. If and when the volumes warrant performance tuning I'll know where to start. > Also of course using text() rather than > > <xsl:apply-templates select="A/Date | B/Date[not(current()/A/Date = .)]> > > means the code is very fragile and will break if comments spit up the text > nodes. > I have been doing too much XQuery recently, but is . robust against changes to the content model?
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