Re: sort on more than one element

["Steve Muench" <Steve.Muench@xxxxxxxxxx>]

| <xsl:sort select="col1;col2"/>
| 
| the parser says that it does not expect a ';'. I tried a ','
| - but dint work too.

List each sort key in it's own <xsl:sort> element.
The first one that appears in document order is
the "primary" sort, the second one that appears
is the "secondary" sort, etc.

<xsl:for-each select="customer-list/customer">
  <!-- Sort (alphabetically) on customer @name attr -->  
  <xsl:sort select="@name"/>
  <!-- Sort (numerically, descending) on sum of their orders -->
  <xsl:sort select="sum(orders/order/total)" 
         data-type="number" order="descending"/>

  <!-- etc. -->

</xsl:for-each>
______________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager
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