Re: [xsl] Sorting Using A Predefined Order

[Jeff Sese <jsese@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the answers, I think I'll gonna go with Mr. Kay's 
solution cause the defined ordering lists a large number of keys.

-- Jeff

David Carlisle wrote:
> Andrew>  which can also be written as:
>
> Andrew>   <xsl:apply-templates select="(div[2], div[3], div[5], div[1], div[4])"/>
>
>
> oh yes if we're using xpath2 there's other ways as well eg
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="for $p in (2,3,5,1,4) return div[$p]"/>
>
>
> this is equivalent to Andrew's although actually neither's quite
> equivalent to my original suggestion of 5 apply-templates calls, 
> as in that case position() and last() would be equal to 1 each time
> whereas in either of the versions here, last() is 5 and position() would
> be 1..5, which is often preferable.
>
> David
>
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