The order in which an XSLT processor does things is not defined. But it
is defined that position() refers to the position in the sorted
sequence.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Ragulf Pickaxe
> Sent: 13 June 2003 09:23
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  When does sort occur?
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I know this has been said, but I can't find it among those 
> thousands of 
> questions about sorting.
> 
> If I apply a template with a sort, as:
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="node" mode="getmax">
>   <xsl:sort select="@num" order="descending" 
> data-type="number"/> </xsl:apply-templates>
> 
> will the sorting occur during the select, before the matching 
> template is 
> called, so I can do:
> 
> <xsl:template match="node" mode="getmax">
>   <!-- I want only the <node> element that has the @num with 
> the highest 
> numerical value -->
>   <xsl:if test="position()=1"><xsl:value-of 
> select="."/></xsl:if> </xsl:template>
> 
> or will the sorting occur after all the nodes have been 
> processed in the 
> matching template?
> 
> I hope that the question is understandable.
> 
> Ragulf Pickaxe :)
> 
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