Hi Karl,
With MSXML there is no method to sort nodes within the DOM. Your best bet
would be to create a simple XSLT (see below) to order the doc. The use code
something like:
var xmlUnsortedDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
var xmlSortedDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
var xmlSortXSLT = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
... code to load the XML into xmlUnsortedDoc ...
... code to load the XSLT (see below) into xmlSortXSLT
// tranform the unsorted doc and stuff the resulting XML into a second DOM
xmlOrderedDoc.loadXML(xmlUnorderedDoc.transformNode(xmlSortXSLT));
... then get the required nodes with .selectNodes method
This XSLT should do the trick.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:sort select="@order" data-type="number" order="ascending"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*">
<xsl:sort select="@order" data-type="number" order="ascending"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Hope that helps
Malcolm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Taylor" <taylor(_at_)ppdm(_dot_)org>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] How to sort Using Dom and SelectNodes
I assume you are referring to coding for a browser. I suspect that you
could code this without too much difficulty. Maybe create an array from
the nodeset and sort it.
-rick
At 01:40 PM 6/4/03 -0700, you wrote:
[Rick]
Any way to do this without a stylesheet, just with the XML Dom (with a
method)?
I'm trying to avoid the whole "transformation" piece of this... but mabye
I
can't.
Karl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Taylor" <taylor(_at_)ppdm(_dot_)org>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] How to sort Using Dom and SelectNodes
Karl,
This should give you what you want.
<xsl:template match="xml">
<xsl:apply-templates select="FLD[(_at_)order]">
<xsl:sort select="@order" data-type="number"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="FLD">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
-rick
At 11:40 AM 6/4/03 -0700, you wrote:
Hello,
I have a simple selectnodes method which grabs nodes from a nodes
list
who
have the attribute ORDER. I'd actually like to select and then order
the
result based on the value of the ORDER attribute. So:
<xml>
<FLD order="3">run</FLD>
<FLD order="1">See</FLD>
<FLD>foo</FLD>
<FLD order="2">spot</FLD>
<FLD>bar</FLD>
</xml>
Would yield the result fragment (tree?):
<FLD order="1">See</FLD>
<FLD order="2">spot</FLD>
<FLD order="3">run</FLD>
How can I achieve this?
Karl
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Rick Taylor
XML Developer
PPDM Association
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Rick Taylor
XML Developer
PPDM Association
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