<xsl:for-each> processes a set of nodes. The set of nodes is determined
by the select attribute. Saying select="." selects exactly one node.
The <xsl:sort> element determines the order in which the set of nodes
will be processed. For a set containing only one node, there is only one
possible order of processing, so <xsl:sort> is completely pointless.
I hope this makes it clearer.
I guess what you really wanted was for me to rewrite your code. You
picked the short straw on that - I'm not Jeni Tennison.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
work: Michael(_dot_)Kay(_at_)softwareag(_dot_)com
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Lorenzo De Tomasi
Sent: 21 February 2003 09:52
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Subject: Re: [xsl] problem with xsl:sort
Thank you very much for your answers! Now it works...
But I don't understand what you want to tell me here:
on 18-02-2003 0:35, Dion Houston at
dionh(_at_)windows(_dot_)microsoft(_dot_)com wrote:
Also note that:
<xsl:for-each select=".">
Will always execute exactly once because "." is short for
"self::*" --
the context node.
and here
on 18-02-2003 0:46, Michael Kay at
michael(_dot_)h(_dot_)kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com wrote:
<xsl:for-each select=".">
<xsl:sort select="@type" data-type="text" order="ascending"/>
<xsl:for-each select="."> processes a node-set that always contains
exactly one node. So there isn't very much point in sorting it.
What's the problem? Have I done something wrong? Is there a
better way to do it? Can you try to explain me with some examples?
Thank you again :)
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XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="contact_temp.xsl"?>
<xCVP xmlns="" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns:a="urn:oasis:names:tc:ciq:xsdschema:xAL:2.0"
xmlns:n="urn:oasis:names:tc:ciq:xsdschema:xNL:2.0"
xsi:schemaLocation="">
<PersonDetails lang="eng">
<Languages>
<Language type="other language" speak="good"
read="excellent" write="good" code="eng">English</Language>
<Language type="mother tongue" speak="excellent"
read="excellent" write="excellent" code="ita">Italiano</Language>
<Language type="other language" speak="basic"
read="basic" write="basic" code="fr">Fran?ßais</Language>
</Languages>
</PersonDetails>
</xCVP>
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XSL
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="xCVP/PersonDetails">
<html>
<body lang="eng">
<section>
<h>languages</h>
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates select="Languages/Language"/>
</p>
</section>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="PersonInfo">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Languages">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Language">
<xsl:for-each select=".">
<xsl:sort select="@type" data-type="text" order="ascending"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@type='mother tongue'">
<l><span class="label"><xsl:value-of
select="@type"/></span><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="."/></l>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<l><span class="label"><xsl:value-of
select="@type"/></span><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="."/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><span
class="label">speak</span><xsl:text>
</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@speak"/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text><span class="label">read</span><xsl:text>
</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@read"/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text><span class="label">write</span><xsl:text>
</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@write"/></l>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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