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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:47 PM
Subject: Re:  xsl sorting


>
> > I am currently trying to sort something which cannot be done numerically
or
> > textually. I need to sort things in a specific order i.e. b comes before
d
> > comes before a. Does XSL have the functionality to do this?
>
> have a document say sort.xml that looks like
> <sort>
>  <x order="1">b</x>
>  <x order="2">d</x>
>  <x order="3">a</x>
> </sort>
>
> then in your stylesheet you can go
>
> <xsl:sort data-type="number"
select="document('sort.xml')/sort/x[.=current()]/@order"/>
>
> Or if your real case really is one letter sort keys you don't need the
> file you can go
> <xsl:sort data-type="text" select="translate(.,'bda',abc')"/>
>
>
> David
>
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