Subject: Inquiry: Reordering XML elements through XSL From: Aaron Fischer <fischer17@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:34:19 -0700 |
Hello everyone. I have a comptuational problem which I am not sure XSL can solve. My XML documents consist of two basic tag blocks, <A></A> and <B></B>. They can either be interwoven, i.e. <A></A><B></B><A></A><B></B>, or separated into sections, i.e. <A></A><A></A><B></B><B></B>. As XSL is creating the result tree from the XML source tree, I want it to resequence the order of sibbling elements for a given parent node. For example, given an XML document with the ABABAB tag order, I may want to retranslate it into the AAABBB order. I know I can apply a cludge to solve the above problem. Namely, use element omission and make two XSL sweeps of the same document. Run one XSL script that will output only <A> tags, another script that will output <B> tags, then concatenate the two output files. However, this still leaves the reverse problem of translating from a tag order of AAABBB to ABABAB. I'm not sure how this problem could be solved without the use of some direct reordering functionality. The textbook I am reading mentions, "the reordering of elements is expected to appear in future version of XSL". Has this functionality arrived yet? Any help you can provide is appreciated. Aaron Fischer XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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