[xquery-talk] Grouping without Duplicates Issues

[David Carlisle]

again you have posted code that calls distinct-values on a sequence of
length 1. This is not a synatx error but it will never do anything
useful,.

   for $book in fn:collection("xmldb:exist://db/library")//book,

so $book will (repeatedly) be bound to a _single_ book node. That is
always the case with a for clause.

   for $doc in distinct-values($book)

distinct-values($book) is given a single node so it will return a single
value, which is the string content of the entire book.

for $r at $count in $sorted_result

this is a for loop over a sequence of length 1, so $count will always be
1.

People have already posted in this thread the idiom you need to use
distinct-values to do grouping in xquery.

David

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