RE: [xsl] <xsl:sort> using a derived element

["RUSSO, EDITH" <EDIRUS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeni,

Before I saw your reply, I saw Mike Kay's reply and did it a little
differently than what you had suggested below.  Both work, is that the case
a lot of the time?  This is a trivial combobox, but how should I decide
which way to implement something similar to this in the future?  What I did
was added /Itm to the end of the xsl:apply-templates and xsl:template
statements and took out the xsl:for-each:

<xsl:apply-templates select="PATHFINDER/List[ListID='102000']/Itm">
	<xsl:sort select="substring-after(ItmDesc,'-')" order="ascending"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:template match="PATHFINDER/List[ListID='102000']/Itm">
	<OPTION><xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="ItmID"/>
</xsl:attribute><xsl:value-of select="substring-after(ItmDesc,'-')"/>
</OPTION>
</xsl:template>

Thanks!

Edith

>What I think you want to do is simply move the xsl:sort element from
>the xsl:apply-templates in the first template and put it as the first
>child of the xsl:for-each element in the template above.  You'll then
>have:

>  <xsl:for-each select="Itm">
>     <xsl:sort select="substring-after(ItmDesc, '-')"
>               order="ascending" />
>     ...
>  </xsl:for-each>

>That will iterate through the Itm elements, sorted according to the
>string after the '-' in the ItmDesc children of the Itm elements.
>Which should work fine.

>I hope that helps,

>Jeni

>---
>Jeni Tennison
>http://www.jenitennison.com/




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