Xalan's set:distinct() is broken by design
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Key: XALANJ-2425
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2425
Project: XalanJ2
Issue Type: Bug
Components: XSLTC
Affects Versions: 2.7.1
Environment: Any
Reporter: Илья Казначеев
Xalan's EXSLT set:distinct() is implemented in a way it is not useful, not
usable and also confusing, not mentioning it will throw an exception if feed
attributes list.
See attached files, result is
<html xmlns:set="http://exslt.org/sets";>
<body>root</body>
</html>
for both libXSLT and xalan-interpreted, but it is
<html xmlns:set="http://exslt.org/sets";>
<body></body>
</html>
for XSLTC.
Reason: Xalan does iterator for set:distinct() by creating a document, stuffing
node list into document's element, and iterating over its children.
This have two consequences: you can't access parent node from such node-list,
and also see XALANJ-2424.
See class BasisLibrary.
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