RE: [xsl] Sorting distinct values

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:12 PM 7/13/2007, you wrote:
> > Somehow I was afraid that was the answer -- it gave off the
> > whiff of an issue that was hotly discussed in committee until
> > the day came when a decision had to be made, one way or the other.
>
> Actually, it's not one of those issues that we had lots of fights over.
> Rather, the reason there's no sort() in XPath is, by and large, that no-one
> made any serious attempt to persuade the WG that there should be one. Don't
> ask me why. Perhaps those who thought it desirable thought that not having a
> sort capability at all was a lesser evil than having XQuery's sort
> capability, which is what we would have ended up with.

In that case, I'm certainly glad to be able to do it the *correct* way.

Cheers,
Wendell


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