Re: [xsl] sort

[Frederic Leclercq <frederic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, but maybe my question was not that clear.
I display a table and the clients can click the headers to sort the 
table. (html)

But not every <td></td> is at the same level in the xml-string.... so 
some clients would like to sort (at xml level) 
<root><person></person></root>
and other clients may want to sort on 
<root><person><extra><extra></person></root>

Hope you understand me ;-)

Thx in advance,
Fred.

Jonathan Perret wrote:

> If the depth of the sorting-element can be bounded to e.g. 3 :
> First, parse your sort specification (e.g., 'person.superlogin.login') into
> several variables - in this case it would give :
> $sortdepth=3
> $sortering1='person'
> $sortering2='superlogin'
> $sortering3='login'
> For a simpler sort, e.g. on 'person' it would give :
> $sortdepth=1
> $sortering1='person'
> $sortering2=''
> $sortering3=''
> This is easy to do with substring-before() and substring-after(), so I'll
> leave it as an exercise :-)
>
> Then you can use the following :
>
> <xsl:apply-templates>
>   <xsl:sort select="*[name()=$sortering1 and $sortdepth=1]"
> order="{$direction}"/>
>   <xsl:sort select="*[name()=$sortering1 and
> $sortdepth=2]/*[name()=$sortering2]" order="{$direction}"/>
>   <xsl:sort select="*[name()=$sortering1 and
> $sortdepth=3]/*[name()=$sortering2]/*[name()=$sortering3]"
> order="{$direction}"/>
> </xsl:apply-templates>
>
> Hope this helps.
> --Jonathan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frederic Leclercq" <frederic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 1:24 AM
> Subject: [xsl] sort
>
> > that's one "record" - i have 100's of them in the XML string.
> >
> > Following works perfect if i would like to sort on one of the first level
> tags...
>
> > <xsl:apply-templates>
> >  <xsl:sort select="*[name()=$sortering]" order="{$direction}"/>
> > </xsl:apply-templates>
> >
> > But now i would like to sort the xmlstring on
> "root.person.supelogin.login"
>
> > Anybody could help me out ?
> >
> > Thx,
> > Fred.
>
>
>
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