Re: Re: [xsl] Ignore Tags

["vasu deva" <vsd18 at rediffmail dot com>]

Dear Joerg, thank you very much...
it really helped me out.
greatfuly yours
vsd
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 Joerg Heinicke wrote :
>This is a general grouping problem.
>
>The easiest way is to test (with the preceding-sibling-axis) 
>whether there
>was already a child with this id:
>
><xsl:template match="root">
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="child[not(@id =
>preceding-sibling::child/@id)]"/>
></xsl:template>
>
><xsl:template match="child">
>     do anything with the happy childs
></xsl:template>
>
>The second way for bigger files (the above way is not so good, 
>because for
>every child all preceding childs have to be tested) is using keys 
>(Muenchian
>Method, 
>http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/muenchian.html)
>
><xsl:key name="childs" match="child" use="@id"/>
>
><xsl:template match="root">
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="child[count( . | key('childs', 
>@id)[1]) =
>1]"/>
></xsl:template>
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Joerg
>
> > hi
> >
> > I have a problem .. it goes like this
> > an xml file of thie folowing format
> >
> > <root>
> >   <child id = '1'>happy</child>
> >   <child id = '2'>happy</child>
> >   <child id = '3'>happy</child>
> >   <child id = '1'>sad</child>
> >   <child id = '2'>sad</child>
> >   <child id = '3'>sad</child>
> > </root>
> >
> > my problem is that when i go through each of the child 
>elements,
> > then i should ignore the duplicates that is once child id = 
>'1' is
> > encountered, the second time it should be ignored.. so 
>effectively
> > the result should be
> > all happy 'childs' .. Is there a way to do that??
> > please help me
> > vsd
>
>
>  XSL-List info and archive:  
>http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list