RE: [xsl] Sorting, but then splitting into 5 <ul> columns

Subject: RE: [xsl] Sorting, but then splitting into 5 <ul> columns
From: "Dan Acuff" <dacuff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:22:01 -0400
Where would one look to for a XSLT processor that runs on Windows 2003
and is XSLT 2.0 ready?

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From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:20 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Sorting, but then splitting into 5 <ul> columns

At 09:46 AM 8/6/2008, Martin wrote:
>Dan Acuff wrote:
>
>>Is there a way to do this possibly by using the results of the first
>>category template and processing it in a new template?
>
>That raises the question whether you want to use XSLT 1.0, XSLT 1.0
>with extension function exsl:node-set, or XSLT 2.0?

And of whether, if using XSLT 1.0, pipelining two stylesheets is
possible, or whether we are really baking bread with our elbows. (It has
been done.)

Or to be more specific: no, it isn't possible in XSLT 1.0 to process the
results of one template with another, without using features or
techniques devised to do so. (These include the extension function and
pipelining stylesheets. For reasons lost in the depths of history, XSLT
1.0 was deliberately designed without this capability
unassisted.) But it would be possible to get your desired output using
other approaches.

Cheers,
Wendell


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