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Sorting XML with XSL, output as XML
- From: Ernst Wolthaus <ernst dot wolthaus at cmg dot nl>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 19:55:33 +0200
- Subject: [xsl] Sorting XML with XSL, output as XML
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Hi all,
I'm new it this so I hope I'm posting this message the right way.
Anyway...
I've got a HTML-pager with a table, with a data island, so the XML data
is bounded in the table by Datafld and Datasrc. Now I want to sort the
XML-data by an XSL-file and a XSL:SORT command. However, this needs to
be generic so I can use the same XSL for all kinds of XML, because else
I have to make a XSL for every XML.
Example:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<book>
<chapter>
<number>2</number>
<title>two</title>
<paragraph>text 2</paragraph>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<number>1</number>
<title>one</title>
<paragraph>text 1</paragraph>
</chapter>
</book>
How do I sort this data by e.g. Number or by Title in a generic way. It's
needs to output the "same" XML but sorted like:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<book>
<chapter>
<number>1</number>
<title>one</title>
<paragraph>text 1</paragraph>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<number>2</number>
<title>two</title>
<paragraph>text 2</paragraph>
</chapter>
</book>
I know how to sort with xsl:param and <xsl:sort
select="@*[name()=$sortfield]" order="{$sortorder}" /> but how do I get
the XML back like the XML described above...???
I've spend a lot of this on this so I would greatly appreciate any
help!!
Thanks,
Ernst Wolthaus
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