Subject: Re: Fw: Is it possible to sort the way I want
From: Ian Lang <ianplang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:59:36 -0700 (PDT)
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I was afraid of that. I think it will be easier to
adjust my XML input a bit since I can control that
some what.
Thanks for the info,
IL
"Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on 2004-04-09
01:51:28:
> If there's a limit on the nesting depth you can
> declare a series of sort keys:
>
> <xsl:sort select="(ancestor::*/@name)[1]"/>
> <xsl:sort select="(ancestor::*/@name)[2]"/>
> <xsl:sort select="(ancestor::*/@name)[3]"/>
> <xsl:sort select="(ancestor::*/@name)[4]"/>
> <xsl:sort select="(ancestor::*/@name)[5]"/>
>
> Otherwise you need a multi-phase approach: one
> phase to compute the sort keys, the second
> phase to do the sort.
>
> It's easy in XSLT 2.0, just do
>
> <xsl:sort select="string-join(ancestor::*/@name,
> '.')"/>
>
> Michael Kay
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