RE: apply-templates select question

["Hunter, David" <dhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Just have a template that matches the IDs but doesn't do anything:
> 
> <xsl:template match="Features/ID" />
> 
> and give the general copy template a lower priority.
> 
> James Tauber


I'm still missing an essential piece of XSL thinking somewhere, because the
closest I can come with this, using my little sample XML document, is the
following stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>

  <xsl:template match="Features/ID"/>

  <xsl:template>
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | * | text()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="/TheRestOfTheDocument/Features">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="ID" order-by="+@Description"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

In this case the "ID" elements are properly sorted by "Description", but the
"Count" element is lost.  In desperation I tried all 6 permutations of the
three template elements, to play around with the priorities, but this
permutation is the only one where the "ID" elements are sorted.

Could I get another little "nudge" in the right direction?  :-)


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