Recently submitted a post requesting help with sorting. my situation is
still the same. i am merging many documents. i get the sort to work but
not correctly. it appears to be looking at only the first node of each
file and sorting the files according to the first node. i need to sort
each individual file first. then merge the sort of all file, or sort
each file then merge all.
mastermerge.xsl
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:preserve-space elements="text"/>
<xsl:template match="masterfile">
<merged>
<table style="border:1px solid
#000000;border-collapse:collapse">
<xsl:apply-templates
select="document(doc/@filename)/client">
<!-- <xsl:sort select="name"/> -->
<xsl:sort select="subclient/name/lname" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</table>
</merged>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(., '

', ' ')"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="client/subclient">
<xsl:copy>
<!-- <tr>
<th>
<xsl:apply-templates select="title"/>
</th>
</tr> -->
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000">
<!-- <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> -->
<!-- <xsl:apply-templates select="name"/> -->
<xsl:for-each select="name">
<xsl:sort select="lname" order="ascending"/>
<xsl:value-of select="fname"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="lname"/>
</xsl:for-each>
<!--
<xsl:apply-templates select="lname"/> -->
</td>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000">
<xsl:apply-templates select="phones"/>
</td>
<td style="border:1px solid #000000">
<xsl:apply-templates select="address"/>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- <xsl:for-each select="name">
<xsl:sort select="lname"/>
<xsl:value-of select="fname"/>
</xsl:for-each> -->
<xsl:template match="address">
<xsl:for-each select="line">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<br/>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="url"/>
<br/>
<xsl:value-of select="email"/>
<br/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="name">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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file1.xml
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<client>
<subclient>
<title>A</title>
</subclient>
<subclient>
<name>
<fname>Jack</fname>
<lname>John</lname>
</name>
<phones>
<phone/>
<ext/>
<fax/>
</phones>
<address>
<line>address 1</line>
<line>address 2</line>
<url>www.what.com</url>
<email/></address>
</subclient>
</client>
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masterfile.xml
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<masterfile>
<doc filename="file1.xml"/>
<doc filename="file2.xml"/>
</masterfile>