Element value to be shown only once...HOW?

suri · August 9th, 2004, 04:59 PM

Hi all,

Below is the XML I have,

<root>
      <CREDITCOMMENT>
          <Comment>BIG LINE 1</Comment>
      </CREDITCOMMENT>
      <CREDITCOMMENT>
          <Comment>Active Duty</Comment>
      </CREDITCOMMENT>
      <CREDITCOMMENT>
          <Comment>BIGPERSON BILL</Comment>
      </CREDITCOMMENT>
      <CREDITCOMMENT>
          <Comment>BIGPERSON BILL</Comment>
      </CREDITCOMMENT>
      <CREDITCOMMENT>
          <Comment>BIGPERSON BILL</Comment>
      </CREDITCOMMENT>
      <CREDITCOMMENT>
          <Comment>BIGPERSON BILL</Comment>
      </CREDITCOMMENT>
      <CREDITCOMMENT>
          <Comment>Active Duty</Comment>
      </CREDITCOMMENT>
      <CREDITCOMMENT>
          <Comment>BIG LINE 1</Comment>
    </CREDITCOMMENT>
</root>

Can someone help me in writting the xsl so that the html will display the Comment only once, Like, below????

========================
BIG LINE 1
Active Duty
BIGPERSON BILL
========================

Thanks in-advance
Suri

pgtips · August 10th, 2004, 07:38 AM

eliminate the duplicates with a selection like this:

Code:

<xsl:apply-templates select="root/CREDITCOMMENT[not(Comment=preceding-sibling::CREDITCOMMENT/Comment)]"/>

output the comment with a template like this:

Code:

<xsl:template match="CREDITCOMMENT">
    <xsl:value-of select="Comment"/><br/>
</xsl:template>

suri · August 10th, 2004, 10:51 AM

Thanks alot..!

It works.

regards
suri