RE: [xsl] XSL month sorting (chronologically)

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Given the alphabetic month as substring(.,X,Y), you can get a numeric value
for sorting as

string-length(substring-before("JanFebMarApr...", substring(.,X,Y))

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of murli bk
> Sent: 11 April 2002 12:21
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] XSL month sorting (chronologically)
>
>
> Hi,
> I have an xml file which looks like
>
> <eventlog>
> <event>
>     <date>10 Mar 2002</date>
>     <data>test2</data>
> </event>
> <event>
>     <date>08 Apr 2002</date>
>     <data>test3</data>
> </event>
> <event>
>     <date>18 Jan 2002</date>
>     <data>test1</data>
> </event>
> </eventlog>
>
> I want to sort on the date in chronological order(with the
> month field in
> letters).
> How do i write a xsl script to sort these events and get an
> output like
>
>
> 18 Jan 2002, test1
> 10 Mar 2002, test2
> 08 Apr 2002, test3
>
>
> Thanks,Murali.
>
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