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RE: Saxon Quirk
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Saxon Quirk
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:14:33 -0000
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> I posted this on the Saxon list yesterday, but then I started
> to think that
> there might be a better way to generate the list that I
> wanted. Any thoughts
> would be greatly appreciated.
Well of course if you want a Saxon solution, you could write
<xsl:variable name="allpubs"
select="saxon:distinct(/publist/pubtag[@list='yes']/@pub)"/>
Mike Kay
>
> Regards,
> Kurt
> ---
> I've been using Instant Saxon 6.2 to try to generate a list
> based on two
> attributes of a tag as given by the allpubs variable below. I've been
> questioning the validity of my XSL, but I get the expected
> output in MSXML3
> and Xalan2.0.0 (although Xalan1.0.2 was broken).
>
> <!-- allpubs.xsl -->
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.1"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:variable name="allpubs"
> select="//pubtag[@list='yes']/@pub[not(.=preceding::pubtag[@li
> st='yes']/@pub
> )]" />
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:for-each select="$allpubs">
> <xsl:value-of select="." /><br />
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> <!-- allpubs.xml -->
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="allpubs.xsl"?>
> <publist>
> <pubtag list='yes' pub='xml journal' />
> <pubtag list='no' pub='fortran journal' />
> <pubtag list='yes' pub='xml journal' />
> <pubtag list='yes' pub='xsl journal' />
> <pubtag list='yes' pub='css journal' />
> <pubtag list='yes' pub='xml journal' />
> <pubtag list='no' pub='cobol journal' />
> <pubtag list='no' pub='ada journal' />
> <pubtag list='no' pub='fortran journal' />
> <pubtag list='no' pub='snobol journal' />
> <pubtag list='yes' pub='xsl journal' />
> </publist>
>
> <!-- Expected Output -->
> xml journal
> xsl journal
> css journal
>
> <!-- Instant Saxon 6.2 Output -->
> xml journal
> xml journal
> xsl journal
> css journal
> xml journal
> xsl journal
>
>
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