Suppressing Repeating Values

Question

I have a template that, hypothetically, has a table with 5 fields, EMPLID, NAME, COMPANY, PAYGROUP, AMOUNT. I want to suppress everything except AMOUNT unless the EMPLID has changed between rows. I have searched the forum and came up with the starting point of using something like <?EMPLID{not(.=preceding::EMPLID)}?> (with square brackets instead of curly of course) which works just fine for suppressing the EMPLID field. If I do something equivalent, <?COMPANY{not(.=preceding::COMPANY)}?> for example, on the other 3 fields though, they will still be suppressed even when the EMPLID changes. What I was hoping I could do instead was something like <?COMPANY{not(self::EMPLID=preceding::EMPLID)}?>, but that doesn't work. I've also tries <?COMPANY{not(.//EMPLID=preceding::EMPLID)}?> but that didn't work either.
I'm definitely not an XML/XSL/Xpath wizard, so I'm sure I'm just doing something stupid wrong, so I'm hoping someone here will know what that is.

Answer 1

Try this
&lt;?if:EMPID!=preceding::EMPID[1] or position()=1?&gt;&lt;?NAME?&gt;&lt;?end if?&gt;