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RE: generic sort based on attribute names

2005-01-23 19:02:55
I am using Saxon (the editor I am using is Oxygen) and get the following 
errors: 
1) Attribute separator not allowed in this element
2) error in expression name(), "=""", ., """ "' separator=""



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com]
Sent: Sun 1/23/2005 3:28 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] generic sort based on attribute names
 

Here's a solution using the latter approach:

<xsl:for-each select="e">
 <xsl:sort>
   <xsl:for-each select="@*">
     <xsl:sort select="name()"/>
     <xsl:value-of select='name(), "=""", ., """ "' separator=""/>
   </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:sort>
 <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>

Saxon 8.2 produces an error message that:

"A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the @sort-key
attribute of xsl:sort".

OK: you need to wrap it like this:

<xsl:for-each select="e">
 <xsl:sort>
      <xsl:value-of>
   <xsl:for-each select="@*">
     <xsl:sort select="name()"/>
     <xsl:value-of select='name(), "=""", ., """ "' separator=""/>
   </xsl:for-each>
      </xsl:value-of>
 </xsl:sort>
 <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>

Besides this problem, does xsl:sort have a "sort-key" attribute? I
don't see it specified either in the latest WG draft or in the book.

Looks like the error message needs improving... 

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


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