Re: [xsl] Ranking Random Nodes from Top to Bottom

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:
> Are "root" and "node" the only element names that appear?
>
> If you had /root[1]/a[3] and /root[1]/b[5], how would you want them sorted?
>
> I would expect that Saxon's alphanumeric collation would do quite a good job
> of this:
>
> <xsl:perform-sort select="tokenize(unparsed-text('input.txt'), '\n')">
>   <xsl:sort select="."
> collation="http://saxon.sf.net/collation?alphanumeric=yes"/>
> </xsl:perform-sort>

This is an interesting hint! Michael, do you mean that this collation 
order automatically sorts the following "correctly" (defined as: treat 
numeric parts as numeric)?

root[1]/node[12]
root[1]/node[6]
root[1]/node[11]
root[1]/node[0045]

into:
root[1]/node[6]
root[1]/node[11]
root[1]/node[12]
root[1]/node[0045]

Or would it still be something like:
root[1]/node[0045]
root[1]/node[11]
root[1]/node[12]
root[1]/node[6]


Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma