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RE: 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, joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 09:21:59 +0200
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Sorting XML with XSL, output as XML
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Dear Joerg (and everyone else),
Thanks very much for the information. It works perfectly. But...
I'm trying to use this algorithm to attach to every possible table with data
islands. That's why I don't want to use node names except in the xsl:sort
part, because I don't know the tagnames in advance.
I've tried it out and I can substitute select="chapter" with select="*".
That seems to work nicely.
Now all I got left is the match="book" statement. I've tried to change this
in match="/" which should select the root but that doesn't seem to work. How
can I select the root statement with the match statement without using the
nodename?
Thanks in advance,
Ernst Wolthaus
-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Heinicke [mailto:joerg.heinicke@gmx.de]
Sent: zaterdag 4 mei 2002 20:35
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Sorting XML with XSL, output as XML
Hello Ernst,
again a identity transformation will help:
<xsl:template match="*|text()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*|text()|@*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
Then you need to add a special template for the book elements.
<xsl:template match="book">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="chapter">
<xsl:sort select="*[name()=$sortfield]" order="{$sortorder}" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
Regards,
Joerg
Ernst Wolthaus schrieb:
> 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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