XSLT sibling from grandparent level

Question

I have an xml that looks like the following. I need to find all the distinct Currencies. Using the following

 <xsl:for-each select="$itemPrices/Relationships/Relationship/Target
                       /Properties/PropertyItem[cs:Key='Currency']/cs:Value">

I have been able to get all the currency types, but there are duplicates. I need to find distinct values using XSLT 1.0. I came across solution that used preceding and following siblings, but I was able to get siblings at the same level. I was unable to construct an XPath that would go three of four level up and then look at the comparable next sibling.

  <Relationship>
    <ModelName>Entities.Relationship</ModelName>
    <Properties />
    <Target>
      <ModelName>ItemPrice</ModelName>
      <Properties>
        <PropertyItem>
          <Key>Currency</Key>
          <Value i:type="a:string" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">US</Value>
        </PropertyItem>
        <PropertyItem>
          <Key>PriceValue</Key>
          <Value i:type="a:decimal" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">13.51</Value>
        </PropertyItem>
        <PropertyItem>
          <Key>ProductId</Key>
          <Value i:type="a:string" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">0600</Value>
        </PropertyItem>
      </Properties>
    </Target>
  </Relationship>
  <Relationship>
    <ModelName>Entities.Relationship</ModelName>
    <Properties />
    <Target>
      <ModelName>ItemPrice</ModelName>
      <Properties>
        <PropertyItem>
          <Key>Currency</Key>
          <Value i:type="a:string" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">US</Value>
        </PropertyItem>
        <PropertyItem>
          <Key>PriceValue</Key>
          <Value i:type="a:decimal" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">11.82</Value>
        </PropertyItem>
        <PropertyItem>
          <Key>ProductId</Key>
          <Value i:type="a:string" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">0600</Value>
        </PropertyItem>
      </Properties>
    </Target>
  </Relationship>
  <Relationship>
    <ModelName>Entities.Relationship</ModelName>
    <Properties />
    <Target>
      <ModelName>ItemPrice</ModelName>
      <Properties>
        <PropertyItem>
          <Key>Currency</Key>
          <Value i:type="a:string" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">Canadian</Value>
        </PropertyItem>
        <PropertyItem>
          <Key>PriceValue</Key>
          <Value i:type="a:decimal" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">10.95</Value>
        </PropertyItem>
        <PropertyItem>
          <Key>ProductId</Key>
          <Value i:type="a:string" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">0600</Value>
        </PropertyItem>
      </Properties>
    </Target>
  </Relationship>

So in the above XML, I should get US and Canada just once, not US twice and Canada once. How can I do that?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 11 '13 at 16:38

While you could use preceding:: instead of preceding-sibling::, the efficient way to select distinct values in XSLT 1.0 is to use Muenchian grouping:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
  <xsl:key name="kCurrency" match="PropertyItem[Key = 'Currency']/Value"
           use="."/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:variable name="allCurrencies"
                  select="Relationships/Relationship/Target/Properties
                          /PropertyItem[Key = 'Currency']/Value" />
    <xsl:for-each select="$allCurrencies[generate-id() = 
                  generate-id(key('kCurrency', .)[1])]">
      <currency>
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      </currency>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

When a <Relationships> element is wrapped around your sample XML and fed into this XSLT, the result is:

<currency>US</currency>
<currency>Canadian</currency>

XSLT sibling from grandparent level

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