Re: Fw: [xsl] Is it possible to sort the way I want

[Ian Lang <ianplang@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was afraid of that.  I think it will be easier to
adjust my XML input a bit since I can control that
some what.

Thanks for the info,

IL


"Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on 2004-04-09
01:51:28:

> If there's a limit on the nesting depth you can
> declare a series of sort keys:
> 
> <xsl:sort select="(ancestor::*/@name)[1]"/> 
> <xsl:sort select="(ancestor::*/@name)[2]"/>
> <xsl:sort select="(ancestor::*/@name)[3]"/>
> <xsl:sort select="(ancestor::*/@name)[4]"/>
> <xsl:sort select="(ancestor::*/@name)[5]"/>
> 
> Otherwise you need a multi-phase approach: one
> phase to compute the sort keys, the second 
> phase to do the sort.
> 
> It's easy in XSLT 2.0, just do
> 
> <xsl:sort select="string-join(ancestor::*/@name,
> '.')"/>
> 
> Michael Kay


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