RE: [xsl] Positions

Subject: RE: [xsl] Positions
From: TSchutzerWeissmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:51:32 -0000
Tanz,

As Trevor says, you need to set up an alternative sort, instead of scripting
exceptions to the alphabetic order of 'lang' attributes, which could get
quite clunky.
Trevor's method appends an f to every lang apart from ES which gets a t for
True, so it's always last alphabetically.

Another way would be to pass a parameter, or make a variable, holding the
ordered list of languages:
	<xsl:variable name="sortOrder" select="AR:CH:EN:FR:ES"/>
	<xsl:sort
	   select="string-length(substring-before($sortOrder, @lang))"
	   data-type="number"
	   order="ascending"/>
It's more flexible but you have to forsee all the @lang values that are
going to come up if you don't want ones that aren't in $sortOrder heading
your list.

____
tom

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