Fix union, complement, symdiff, and intersect for transient resources

Fixes #13181

tpl/collections/collections_integration_test.go

@@ -249,3 +249,32 @@ tags: ['tag-b']
 		"2: Intersect: 1|\n2: Union: 3|\n2: SymDiff: 2|\n2: Uniq: 3|",
 	)
 }
+
+// Issue #13181
+func TestUnionResourcesMatch(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	files := `
+-- config.toml --
+disableKinds = ['rss','sitemap', 'taxonomy', 'term', 'page']
+-- layouts/index.html --
+{{ $a := resources.Match "*a*" }}
+{{ $b := resources.Match "*b*" }}
+{{ $union := $a | union $b }}
+{{ range $i, $e := $union }}
+{{ $i }}: {{ .Name }}
+{{ end }}$
+-- assets/a1.html --
+<div>file1</div>
+-- assets/a2.html --
+<div>file2</div>
+-- assets/a3_b1.html --
+<div>file3</div>
+-- assets/b2.html --
+<div>file4</div>
+`
+
+	b := hugolib.Test(t, files)
+
+	b.AssertFileContentExact("public/index.html", "0: /a3_b1.html\n\n1: /b2.html\n\n2: /a1.html\n\n3: /a2.html\n$")
+}

tpl/collections/reflect_helpers.go

@@ -20,11 +20,12 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/common/hashing"
 	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/common/types"
+	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/resources/resource"
 )
 
 var (
 	zero      reflect.Value
-	errorType = reflect.TypeOf((*error)(nil)).Elem()
+	errorType = reflect.TypeFor[error]()
 )
 
 func numberToFloat(v reflect.Value) (float64, error) {
@@ -56,7 +57,13 @@ func normalize(v reflect.Value) any {
 			return f
 		}
 	}
-	return types.Unwrapv(v.Interface())
+
+	vv := types.Unwrapv(v.Interface())
+	if ip, ok := vv.(resource.TransientIdentifier); ok {
+		return ip.TransientKey()
+	}
+
+	return vv
 }
 
 // collects identities from the slices in seqs into a set. Numeric values are normalized,
@@ -151,7 +158,6 @@ func convertNumber(v reflect.Value, to reflect.Kind) (reflect.Value, error) {
 		case reflect.Uint64:
 			n = reflect.ValueOf(uint64(i))
 		}
-
 	}
 
 	if !n.IsValid() {