Re: [xsl] Sorting a TEI <biblStruct> bibliography by <surname>

Hi,

I would do sort/@select="descendant::surname[1]"

Two reasons:

1. More legible and direct

2. Accounts for all surname descendants including biblStruct/surname
(although that shouldn't happen), not just those at lower levels.

Cheers, Wendell


On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Charles Muller
acmuller(_at_)l(_dot_)u-tokyo(_dot_)ac(_dot_)jp 
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
wrote:
> Graydon wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 03:24:11AM -0000, Charles Muller
> > acmuller(_at_)l(_dot_)u-tokyo(_dot_)ac(_dot_)jp scripsit:
> > > Thus, I changed
> > >
> > >   <xsl:sort select="*//surname"/>
> > >
> > > to
> > >
> > >   <xsl:sort select="*//surname[1]"/>
> > >
> > > but this generates the same error message.
> >
> > What you changed it to isn't necessarily going to change the sequence
> > returned; it would only affect things if the surname elements were
> > siblings.  Otherwise you're getting the surname children of different
> > elements, same as before.  (The implicit context of position() is
> > relative to the parent element, and [1] is short for [position() eq 1])
> >
> > You may want
> >
> > <xsl:sort select="(*//surname)[1]"/>
> >
> > which takes the whole sequence of descendant surname elements and
> > returns the first one, but I'd be worried I had different values of
> > surname in there, and would want to try comparing them to make sure I
> > wasn't perpetrating and atrocity.
>
> Yes, this seems to do the trick. Thank you very much!
>
> Charles
>
>
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> H-Buddhism Zotero Bibliography:
> https://www.zotero.org/groups/h-buddhism_bibliography_project/items/collectionKey


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