[xquery-talk] Using Union Operator without Duplicate Records

[Alice Wei]

Alice Wei wrote:

{for $file in doc("resume_2.xml")//author let $author := 
distinct-values($file[./@type='co-author' ] union 
$file[./@type='Faculty']) order by $author ascending return 
<li>{data($author)}</li> }

Actually the distinct-values() is in the for body. So it is called with 
a sequence of 0 or 1 item each time. Try something like the following 
instead (the distinct-values() is used here to give the right sequence 
to the for):

for $a in <projection> <author type="co-author">Andrew Tawfik</author> 
<author type="co-author">Chris Hosler</author> <author 
type="co-author">Michelle Scott</author> <author 
type="Faculty">Michelle Scott</author> </projection> / 
distinct-values(.//author[@type = ('co-author', 'Faculty')]) order by 
$a ascending return <li> { data($a) } </li>

Result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <li>Andrew Tawfik</li> <li>Chris 
Hosler</li> <li>Michelle Scott</li>

Thanks, now it is working a lot better than before. But there is one 
little problem, since I have other "children" under project that are 
not to be selected in this set of XQuery, is it not possible to just 
state some for statements instead of putting in the entire code?

  The other thing is, I have placed all the other "sections" within the 
original XML file into this code, and now the output from A-R is 
running in an orderly fashion. But, somehow the one that has the first 
name with an S is at the beginning of the list.

eg. <projection>
        <author type="co-author">Stanley</author>
        <author type="co-author">Henry</author>
     </projection>

     <projection>
    <author type="co-author">Frances</author>
        <author type="co-author">Anna</author>
     </projection>

The result I got is supposed to start with Anna, but instead it starts 
with Stanley, then skips to Anna. The rest of the list is in orderly 
fashion according to the structure of the code. Have I missed something 
here?

Alice


Regards,

--drkm

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Alice Wei
MIS 2008
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei at indiana.edu
812-856-2659