Subject: [xsl] sorting before transforming From: Dan Miner <dminer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:32:00 -0600 (MDT) |
I'm new to XSLT and I've been having pretty good results; however, I've hit a spot where input sorting is required. I have an element called <text> which I will display in an HTML file. However, I have a number of special spots in this text which I want to highlight in some way. This can be reasonably done by having the start positions within the text to be sorted. But this isn't the case in the source XML. What I'd like to do is sort a list of nodes and then transform this sorted node list. <xsl:sort> appears to only work on the resulting output and can not be applied to the input document. Is it possible to sort nodes in the input? If not, is there a way to "chain" stylesheets? [ XML1 -> XSL1 -> XML2 -> XSL2 -> XML3, etc] Samples: (using Xalan-Java 2 on Linux) <list> <text>This is a test string.</text> <prop1> <startpos>0</startpos> <length>1</length> </prop1> <prop1> <startpos>6</startpos> <length>1</length> </prop1> <prop2> <startpos>3</startpos> <length>1</length> </prop2> </list> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="//list"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="list"> <xsl:for-each select="*[startpos]"> <xsl:value-of select="startpos"/>, <xsl:value-of select="length"/>, <xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::*/startpos - startpos"/> --- </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> It outputs: 0, 1, 6 --- 6, 1, -3 --- 3, 1, NaN --- Regards, Dan -- Dan Miner dan@xxxxxxxxx | "That vulnerability is completely | Doing Linux & UNIX | theoretical." -- Microsoft | Linux Programmer/Consultant | "What yonder light Windows 95 breaks?" | since | "Free software: The New Frontier" | v0.12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ By filing this bug report, you have challenged the honor of my family. PREPARE TO DIE! XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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