[xsl] Random Sort

Subject: [xsl] Random Sort
From: "Tom Froehlich" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:21:17 -0700
I maintain a Web directory of fundraising software hosted on IIS
(www.tfraise.com/listings.aspx) and cannot figure how to get my listings to
be rendered unsorted or, more to the point, sorted in a random manner each
time the page is requested. I do not want to give vendors/software with
names starting with the latter A a constant top ranking because of
alphabetical sorting, but give every vendor/software an equal chance at
first user request. Is this really complicated to do? I had a hard time
getting it to work as well as it is now.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="C:\.....\tblSystems.xsl"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
	<xsl:output method="html" version="4.0"/>
	<xsl:param name="querykey1">sFunction</xsl:param>
	<xsl:param name="queryvalue1">Fundraising</xsl:param>
	<xsl:param name="sortkey1">sName</xsl:param>
	<xsl:param name="datatype">text</xsl:param>
	<xsl:param name="order">ascending</xsl:param>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"
width="573" align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse">
			<tr>
				<td width="29">
					<img border="0"
src="images/rightarrow.gif"/>
				</td>
				<td valign="top" colspan="2">
					<h2>Free Listing of  <xsl:value-of
select="count(//tblSystems[*[name()=$querykey1]=$queryvalue1])"/>
						<xsl:text>  </xsl:text>
						<xsl:value-of
select="$queryvalue1"/> Systems.</h2>
				</td>
			</tr>
			<xsl:for-each
select="//tblSystems[*[name()=$querykey1]=$queryvalue1]">
				<xsl:sort data-type="{$datatype}"
select="*[name() = $sortkey1]" order="{$order}"/>
				<tr>
					<td/>
					<td valign="top" width="272"
bgcolor="#F4F9FF">
						<hr/>
						<xsl:number/>
						<xsl:text>. </xsl:text>
						<b>
							<xsl:value-of
select="sName"/>
						</b>
						<br/>
						<i>
							<xsl:value-of
select="Name"/>
						</i>
						<br/>



*************************
Tom Froehlich, CFRE
www.tfraise.com

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