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RE: Formatting XSL for XML to CSV translation

2003-09-19 08:10:45
[David Carlisle]
 
Ypu should add an xsl:sort here (eg on name()) as otherwise 
your columns
will come out in arbitrary order, and possibly different orders
on each row.


Excellent addition.

However, the
order should not be important because with a relational database, 

but in a csv file if each row has things in a different order how can
you know which field is which?


I'll bet that in practice, the order will come out the same way in each
row - it's just that you cannot be sure what that order would be.  But
it's true - there is no guarantee - your sort will take care of it.

Cheers,

Tom P

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