Re: [xsl] Sorting and re-ordering down a hierarchy

["Ragulf Pickaxe" <jawxml@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I did not see any response on this (except for one who said he used Perl 
instead), so I tried myself.
The templates below, I thought would do what was wanted, but I only get it 
to sort on the 1st level, not on the second level. I do not know why.

Does anybody else have a solution, and can anyone tell me why my solution 
does not work?

Regards,
Ragulf Pickaxe :)


<xsl:template match="/">
	<output>
	<xsl:apply-templates select="input"/>
	</output>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="input">
	<xsl:apply-templates select="node">
		<xsl:sort select="node/rank" data-type="number" order="ascending"/>
	</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="node">
	<node>
	<xsl:copy-of select="rank"/>
	<xsl:apply-templates select="node">
	<xsl:sort select="node/rank" data-type="number" order="ascending"/>
	</xsl:apply-templates>
	</node>
</xsl:template>


> <input>
> <node>
>     <rank>2</rank>
>     <node>
>         <rank>88</rank>
>     </node>
>     <node>
>         <rank>7</rank>
>     </node>
>     <node>
>         <rank>66</rank>
>     </node>
> </node>
> <node>
>     <rank>1</rank>
>     <node>
>         <rank>3</rank>
>     </node>
>     <node>
>         <rank>2</rank>
>     </node>
>     <node>
>         <rank>1</rank>
>     </node>
> </node>
> </input>

The output I get on this is:
<output>
 <node>
   <rank>1</rank>
   <node>
     <rank>3</rank>
   </node>
   <node>
     <rank>2</rank>
   </node>
   <node>
     <rank>1</rank>
   </node>
   </node>
   <node>
     <rank>2</rank>
   <node>
     <rank>88</rank>
   </node>
   <node>
     <rank>7</rank>
   </node>
   <node>
     <rank>66</rank>
   </node>
 </node>
</output>

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