> On 8 Jul 2022, at 11:23, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> At this point we're stuck because the requirements aren't clear.
>> In the example, 12 appeared in the output before 11, but we
>> don't know why: there was nothing in the requirements
>> statement that said it should.
>
> The only requirement is for the longer strings to come first.
>
> So any of these results would be fine:
>
> 12|11|10|9|8|7|6|5|4|3|2|1
> 11|12|10|9|8|7|6|5|4|3|2|1
> 10|11|12|9|8|7|6|5|4|3|2|1
> 12|11|10|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9
> ...
>
> What is the simplest XPath expression to achieve that result?
>
> /Roger


In that case it's simplest to sort the numbers by their value rather than by
their length, since that will produce one of the acceptable orderings.

Michael Kay
Saxonica