Subject: Re: [xsl] Sorting and Grouping revisited From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:39:09 +0100 |
Hi Mike, > This isn't really a question, other than to ask, 'am I crazy for > expecting XSLT to be able to handle sorting and grouping > gracefully?' No, you're not. XSLT handles *sorting* fairly well, but it doesn't handle grouping at all well, and won't until XSLT 2.0. There are techniques for doing grouping that work OK, but they're not particularly easy to get to grips with - see http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping for more details. > It seems to me the best bet for accomplishing what I need to do is > to restructure my XML. As another member of this group noted, this > is changing the data subtly for a presentation reason. This seems > wrong. It's 'wrong' if you change the *underlying* XML to suit the presentation. However, you could have a preprocessing stylesheet that takes the XML data and sorts it, before the data is then passed on to the presentational stylesheet. This isn't 'wrong' at all - in fact it's a good approach to the problem, better than performing the complex transformation in a single step. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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