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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl sorting
I am currently trying to sort something which cannot be done numerically
or
textually. I need to sort things in a specific order i.e. b comes before
d
comes before a. Does XSL have the functionality to do this?
have a document say sort.xml that looks like
<sort>
<x order="1">b</x>
<x order="2">d</x>
<x order="3">a</x>
</sort>
then in your stylesheet you can go
<xsl:sort data-type="number"
select="document('sort.xml')/sort/x[.=current()]/@order"/>
Or if your real case really is one letter sort keys you don't need the
file you can go
<xsl:sort data-type="text" select="translate(.,'bda',abc')"/>
David
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