Hi,
Your sort statement should probably be something like:
  <xsl:sort select="ability/@rank" order="ascending"/>
because the language element does not have a rank attribute.

Brad


-----Original Message-----
From: Alice Wei [mailto:ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: December 27, 2007 1:29 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Sort By Multiple Values?

Hi,

Sorry, I have messed up my previous document in the cut and paste. Here is the
"correct" document.
>
> I have a document here where I am attempting to sort it using multiple
> values. Here is the XML:
>
>  <computer>
>            <language>
>                <ability rank="1">XML 1.0</ability>
>                <type>XML</type>
>            </language>
>            <language>
>                <ability rank="1">XSLT 1.0</ability>
>                <type>XML</type>
>            </language>
>            <language>
>                <ability rank="2">XSLT 2.0</ability>
>                <type>XML</type>
>            </language>
>            <language>
>                <ability rank="1">HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0</ability>
>                <type>HTML</type>
>            </language>
>            <language>
>                <ability rank="1">CSS</ability>
>                <type>HTML</type>
>            </language>
> </computer>
>
> The XSL:
>
>   <xsl:template match="computer">
>   [<span class="skills">
>                        <xsl:apply-templates select="language">
>                            <xsl:sort select="@rank" order="ascending"/>
>                        </xsl:apply-templates>
>                    </span>]
> </xsl:template>
>
> The output now is in the same order as it is in the order of the
> document w= hen the @rank value is 1, and followed by the one where
> @rank=2.
>
> [XML 1.0] [XSLT 1.0] [HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0] [CSS] [XSLT 2.0].
>
> Is it possible that I can get it to display as
>
> [CSS] [HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0] [XML 1.0] [XSLT 1.0] [XSLT 2.0]
>
> ?
>
> Thanks to those who can help.
>


Alice Wei
MIS 2008
School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx
812-856-2659