RE: [xsl] Sorting Problem

["Martinez, Brian" <brian.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: puja thakral [mailto:puja_thakral@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:07 AM
> Subject: [xsl] Sorting Problem
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> I'm also having sorting problems.I'm using
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="dataroot/GrantNet">
> <xsl:sort select="@fldCatID"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> this code to sort my items by fldCatID but it doesn't
> seems to work.

Most likely, @fldCatID is not present in your current context (it needs to
be an attribute of the GrantNet node), but without seeing any sample XML
this is purely a guess.

> I also have one more question.I'm still learning
> xml/xsl.What is the difference between using
> <xsl:for-each select> and <xsl:template match>
> I tried using both of them but some functions seem to
> work in one and not in another.Can someone pls clarify
> the basic question.

This article explains it better than I ever could:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xdpshpul.html?open&l=976
,t=gr

>I'm sorry if u find this question
> too dumb but there is noone working on this in my
> office whom I can ask?Also I could not find a
> convincing answer by searching on Google.

No question is too dumb (OK, maybe a few . . .), but with all due respect,
you can't have looked very hard.  Just typing 'xslt' in Google returns a
staggering number of results.  But here's a few links to start:

http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/ (W3 home page for XSL/XSLT)
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslfaq.html (XSL/XSLT FAQ, hosted by Dave
Pawson)
http://www.xslt.com/ (apparently under new management; still lots o' links)

hth,
b.

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