Greetings,
Thanks for the examples on this list. They've been very helpful, but I'm stuck
now. I would greatly appreciate some help, pointers or a push in a
different/successful direction.
Is it possible to sort by title ignoring stopwords and return all nodes if not
every entry has a title? I need to sort the titles ignoring initial words "a,
an & the". I then need to output each item in title sort order, keeping the
doc-numbers together. I also need a secondary sort by arrival date.
My xml, which I cannot change, often follows this pattern:
<section-02>
<title>Forbes.</title>
<isbn-issn>0015-6914</isbn-issn>
<doc-number>58615</doc-number>
<description>v.173:no.5(2004:Mar.15)</description>
<arrival-date>03/15/2004</arrival-date>
</section-02>
<section-02>
<title></title>
<isbn-issn-code></isbn-issn-code>
<doc-number>58615</doc-number>
<description>v.173:no.1(2004:Jan. 12)</description>
<arrival-date>01/12/2004</arrival-date>
</section-02>
<section-02>
<title></title>
<isbn-issn-code></isbn-issn-code>
<doc-number>58615</doc-number>
<description>v.173:no.2(2004:Feb. 02)</description>
<arrival-date>01/21/2004</arrival-date>
</section-02>
My xsl looks like this:
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0"
xmlns:sw="mailto:me(_at_)aol(_dot_)com"
exclude-result-prefixes="sw">
<sw:stop>
<word>the</word>
<word>a</word>
<word>an</word>
</sw:stop>
<xsl:variable name="stop-words"
select="document('')/xsl:stylesheet/sw:stop/word"/>
<xsl:variable name="lowercase" select="'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'"/>
<xsl:variable name="uppercase" select="'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV'"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<result>
<table border="'1'">
<th colspan="6">Arrived Issues sorted without stop words</th>
<tr>
<td align="center"><b/>number</td>
<td align="center"><b/>Title</td>
<td align="center"><b/>ISBN-ISSN</td>
<td align="center"><b/>Imprint</td>
<td align="center"><b/>Description</td>
<td align="center"><b/>Arrived</td></tr>
<!-- sort works but then cannot get items w/o titles nor sort the dates
<xsl:for-each select="//section-02/title[text()!='']">
<xsl:sort select="concat(substring(substring-after(.,'
'), 0 div boolean
($stop-words[starts-with(translate(current(),
$uppercase, $lowercase),
concat(translate(., $uppercase, $lowercase), ' '))])),
substring(., 0 div not
($stop-words[starts-with(translate(current(),
$uppercase, $lowercase),
concat(translate(., $uppercase, $lowercase), '
'))])))"/>
-->
<!-- doesn't work here, but works without the predicate and /title if
each record has a title
<xsl:for-each select="//section-02">
<xsl:sort
select="concat(substring(substring-after(title[text()!='',' '), 0 div boolean
($stop-words[starts-with(translate(current()/title,
$uppercase, $lowercase),
concat(translate(., $uppercase, $lowercase), ' '))])),
substring(title[text()!='', 0 div not
($stop-words[starts-with(translate(current()/title,
$uppercase, $lowercase),
concat(translate(., $uppercase, $lowercase), '
'))])))"/>
-->
<!-- secondary sort -->
<xsl:for-each select="//section-02">
<xsl:sort select="number(concat(substring(arrival-date,
7,4),
substring(arrival-date, 1,2), substring(arrival-date,
4,2)))" order="descending"/>
<tr>
<td width="10%"><xsl:value-of select="doc-number"/></td>
<td width="30%"><xsl:value-of select="title" /></td>
<td width="10%"><xsl:value-of select="isbn-issn"/></td>
<td width="20%"><xsl:value-of select="imprint"/></td>
<td width="20%"><xsl:value-of select="description"/></td>
<td width="10%"><xsl:value-of select="arrival-date"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</result>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Thank you very much,
Susan Campbell
College Center for Library Automation
1753 W. Paul Dirac Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32310
850-922-6044