How to determine if an element value is unique?

mphare · #1 (**permalink**) November 13th, 2008, 06:39 PM

Brain freeze time again..

Running Saxon 9

I have a structure with a bunch of elements scattered throughout the tree.

I need to validate that each instance of this particular element has a unique text value.

Is this a for-each-group type problem?

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mhkay · #2 (**permalink**) November 13th, 2008, 07:38 PM

The simplest is

count($values) = count(distinct-values($values))

In practice you may be interested then to find out where the duplicates are, which you can do using for-each-group

<xsl:for-each-group select="$values" group-by=".">
<xsl:if test="count(current-group()) gt 1">
...

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Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

mphare · #3 (**permalink**) November 17th, 2008, 12:12 PM

Thanks, the second example is what I was thinking about.
Works like a champ

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