RE: [xsl] generic sort based on attribute names

["Chaitanya Desai" <cdesai@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can u please explain how the node-set function could help in this
context?
Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Joris Gillis [mailto:roac@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 2:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [xsl] generic sort based on attribute names

Tempore 11:19:45, die 01/23/2005 AD, hinc in
xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit Chaitanya Desai
<cdesai@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> thanks for the response. But the collective string lengths are not the

> same.
I feared so...
> In fact I just gave an example here. I have no a priori knowledge of
> what the XML looks like. All I know is that the 'concatenated
name-value
> pairs for all attributes sorted' needs to be the key for sorting.
I don't see any universally working solution in pure XSLT1.0 at the
moment.
Is it allowed to use extension functions? An 'xx:node-set()' function
can
be put to use here to let it work...

regards,
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