<xsl:for-each> processes a set of nodes. The set of nodes is determined
by the select attribute. Saying select="." selects exactly one node.
The <xsl:sort> element determines the order in which the set of nodes
will be processed. For a set containing only one node, there is only one
possible order of processing, so <xsl:sort> is completely pointless.
I hope this makes it clearer.
I guess what you really wanted was for me to rewrite your code. You
picked the short straw on that - I'm not Jeni Tennison.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Lorenzo De Tomasi
> Sent: 21 February 2003 09:52
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: problem with xsl:sort
>
>
> Thank you very much for your answers! Now it works...
> But I don't understand what you want to tell me here:
>
> on 18-02-2003 0:35, Dion Houston at dionh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Also note that:
> >
> > <xsl:for-each select=".">
> >
> > Will always execute exactly once because "." is short for
> "self::*" --
> > the context node.
>
> and here
>
> on 18-02-2003 0:46, Michael Kay at michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > <xsl:for-each select=".">
> > <xsl:sort select="@type" data-type="text" order="ascending"/>
> >
> > <xsl:for-each select="."> processes a node-set that always contains
> > exactly one node. So there isn't very much point in sorting it.
>
> What's the problem? Have I done something wrong? Is there a
> better way to do it? Can you try to explain me with some examples?
>
> Thank you again :)
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> XML
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="contact_temp.xsl"?>
> <xCVP xmlns="" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xmlns:a="urn:oasis:names:tc:ciq:xsdschema:xAL:2.0"
> xmlns:n="urn:oasis:names:tc:ciq:xsdschema:xNL:2.0"
> xsi:schemaLocation="">
> <PersonDetails lang="eng">
> <Languages>
> <Language type="other language" speak="good"
> read="excellent" write="good" code="eng">English</Language>
> <Language type="mother tongue" speak="excellent"
> read="excellent" write="excellent" code="ita">Italiano</Language>
> <Language type="other language" speak="basic"
> read="basic" write="basic" code="fr">Fran?ßais</Language>
> </Languages>
> </PersonDetails>
> </xCVP>
> ______________________________________________________________
> ______________
> XSL
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
> <xsl:template match="xCVP/PersonDetails">
> <html>
> <body lang="eng">
> <section>
> <h>languages</h>
> <p>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="Languages/Language"/>
> </p>
> </section>
> </body>
> </html>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="PersonInfo">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="Languages">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="Language">
> <xsl:for-each select=".">
> <xsl:sort select="@type" data-type="text" order="ascending"/>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="@type='mother tongue'">
> <l><span class="label"><xsl:value-of
> select="@type"/></span><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
> select="."/></l>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <l><span class="label"><xsl:value-of
> select="@type"/></span><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
> select="."/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><span
> class="label">speak</span><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@speak"/><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text><span class="label">read</span><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@read"/><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text><span class="label">write</span><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@write"/></l>
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
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