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

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:
> > 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]
> >
> >     
>
> Yes.

Wow, I'm impressed. I guess I should read the docs better ;).

I use a generalized sorting routine that does something like tokenize 
by numeric values and then sort by appending zeros and concatenating it 
with the rest into a string (much like my earlier solution in this 
thread, but more generic). Time to throw that piece of code away ;)