Hi Simon,
At 02:32 PM 5/14/2003, you wrote:
Some of you might remember that I was writing a small suite of XSLT to do
roundtripping of XML instance data to HTML forms and back again, based on
RNG (relax NG) schemas to define the forms. Well, I actually made some
progress and have something that kinda-sorta works now. One issue though
is that my code isn't smart enough to insert new elements in the "right"
order*.
* where the "right" order is the order that things appear in the schema
The reason that's important is that xslt I've seen (and written ...) often
assumes that the instance XML will be in a certain order and outputs in
that order too, so that in this case with resumes I get job history listed
before the name and address ;-)
Is there XSLT out there, that I can use, that will take an instance and a
schema and re-order the instance to match the schema? Does that make sense?
Two things that can help us answer this question:
1. Are we talking arbitrary RNG schemas, or some subset thereof?
2. By "reorder the instance to match the schema", we are talking about the
order declared by the schema to be a valid order, or the order of the
declarations? (The former, I take it. But this is why the first question is
important.)
Seeing a sample of input (in this case, both inputs) and desired output
would, as always, be a big help.
Cheers,
Wendell
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