Re: Sorting and position

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Kay claiming to be Patrick Cauldwell writes:

> The question I have is how to I sort a node-list, then take only part of it.
> Say for example I have:

I don't think this is really possible in any sane way in a single pass
given non numeric sort keys as in your example. You could do it with
numeric sort keys by ignoring xsl:sort and doing the sorting by hand
with > but that doesn't do lexicographic sorting (probably due to
internationalisation issues). You can write a stylesheet to produce the
sorted order and then a second sheet that reads the sorted list as
input and selects the first two elements.

David


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