RE: [xsl] getting the longest text node

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops, nice catch. Thanks!

--W

At 06:21 PM 3/11/2003, you wrote:
> > There's an idiom for this kind of thing. It was first invented by ...
> > someone who no doubt reads this list!
> >
> > <xsl:template match="root">
> >    <xsl:for-each select="//apple">
> >      <xsl:sort select="string-length(.)" order="descending"/>
>
> I think you need to add
>         data-type="number"
> Otherwise, a string of length 2 would be preferred over a string
> of length 10.


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