As well as the solution using keys, an alternative using XSLT 2.0 if the
number of periods is small is
<xsl:sort select="index-of(('bronze', 'byzantine', 'roman', 'islamic'),
@period)"/>
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: srinivas vemuri [mailto:s_vas98(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com]
Sent: 08 September 2005 04:01
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] custom xsl sorting
Hi,
I have to perform xsl sorting based on time period
instead of regular ascii or integer based sorting. For
ex: According to ascii, BYZANTINE comes before MIDDLE
BRONZE. But, according to this sort(time period):
MIDDLE BRONZE comes before BYZANTINE.
My initial idea is like this. A separate xml:
'period.xml' has this period to ascii mapping.
<entry period="middlebronze">1</entry>
<entry period="byzantine">2</entry>
<entry period="Roman">3</entry>
<entry period="islamic">4</entry>
......
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Now, my stylesheet should be applied to a dynamic xml
page & should order period values occur in that page.
<dynamicpage>
<val>Roman</val>
<val>Islamic</val>
<val> byzantine </val>
</dynamicpage>
desired output after xslt application:
byzantine, Roman, Islamic
Please help regarding how xslt should look like?
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