Subject: how to sort a list of xpaths
From: Mark Hutchinson <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:10:35 -0800
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I have an application that uses xpaths to identify which rule that
should be executed for a given tag in a source file.
eg given a source file of:
<section>
<class type="AA">
<entry>entry text</para>
</class>
<class type="BB">
<entry type="italic">text text</para>
<entry>text text</entry>
<class>
<entry>subclass entry text</entry>
</class>
</class>
</section>
My application might have the following rules :
1. /section/class[@type="AA"]/entry
2. //class
3. /section/class[@type="BB"]/entry
4. //entry
5. //entry[@type="italic"]
My application searches the rules from the top down - stopping from
checking any further once a match has been found. ie the first class
(AA) matches with rule 1 and this is correct. The second class (BB)
matches with rule 2 which is, obviously, not correct.
Here's my question (finally!) - do anyone have a utility or xslt, perl
etc that can sort these rules based on a schema?
Regards
Mark H.
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