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RE: To simulate SORT inside a xsl:choose condition
- From: "Dion Houston" <dionh at microsoft dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:27:01 -0700
- Subject: RE: [xsl] To simulate SORT inside a xsl:choose condition
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Hi Kumar:
The way I'd do this is to control the sorting outside of your
template... e.g.
<People>
<Person LastName="Smith" Age="22"/>
<Person LastName="Jones" Age="19"/>
</People>
<xsl:param name="sortMethod">LastName</xsl:param>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$sortMethod="LastName">
<xsl:apply-templates select="/People/Person">
<xsl:sort select="@LastName"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$sortMethod="Age">
<xsl:apply-templates select="/People/Person">
<xsl:sort select="@Age"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
In this way, your template can work regardless of the sorting
criteria...
HTH!
Dion
-----Original Message-----
From: KUMAR NINGASHETTY [mailto:kningashetty@deltafunding.com]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:15 PM
To: <
Subject: [xsl] To simulate SORT inside a xsl:choose condition
Hi all ,
I know that the rule to sort should be immediately after <xsl:for-each
>
I am in a situation where i have to read the criteria to sort from
some some node in the beginning of XML
and based on which i need to make a decision to sortBY corresponding
node somewhere down the line....
But as you know the following way doesnt work ...
<xsl:for-each select="somenode">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl;when test="$prevnode = 'criteriavalue' ">
<xsl:sort order="ascending" select="node_to_be_sorted"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
Note: dont worry about syntax check on this ...
Is there a way to sneak around and get this Sorting to work based on
some criteria ...Or any other work arounds, suggestions?
thanx in advance
- kumar
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