In XSLT 2.0 this is quite straightforward.
If you provide a really wellformed xml, somebody may try to solve your
problem in XSLT 1.0.
In the meantime, do have a look at this solution -- a generic sort
with varying/statically-unknown number of sort keys:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200303/msg00007.html
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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On 10/8/05, Ragulf Pickaxe <ragulf(_dot_)pickaxe(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi all,
Using XSLT 1.0
I have a table of contents that is of the following (endtags abreviated):
<TOC>
<STRUC pos="3" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="1" title="Another"></ </
<STRUC pos="3" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="4" title="Another"></ </
<STRUC pos="2" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="1" title="Another"></ </
<STRUC pos="3" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="2" title="Another"></ </
<STRUC pos="2" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="3" title="Another"></ </
<STRUC pos="3" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="6" title="Another"></ </
</TOC>
The depth of the STRUC elements is arbitrary.
<TOC>
<STRUC pos="2" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="1" title="Another"></ </
<STRUC pos="2" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="3" title="Another"></ </
<STRUC pos="3" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="1" title="Another"></ </
<STRUC pos="3" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="2" title="Another"></ </
<STRUC pos="3" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="4" title="Another"></ </
<STRUC pos="3" title="sometitle"><STRUC pos="6" title="Another"></ </
</TOC>
When I am at the TOC element, I want to process the top STRUC
elements, sorting them in full depth.
If I can concatenate all pos attributes, I will be able to do this.
As far as I know, I cannot say:
<xsl:sort select="concat(.//STRUC/@pos)" date-type="number"/>
Is there some other way that I can achieve this? Does the following work?
<xsl:sort select=".//STRUC/@pos" data-type="number"/>
I have not tried sorting more complicated than on a single element or
attribute, so I am a little unsure of the mechanics in this.
Another problem is of course where @pos > 10. If I had full control, I
could do something like:
<xsl:sort select="translate(.//STRUC/@pos,'0','A')" data-type="text"/>
Is this workable? If not, is there someway else that I can achieve this?
I am doing a lot with the data, besides just sorting them, so it is
not so clearcut as an identity transformation sorting each element.
I hope help is possible :-)
Regards,
Ragulf Pickaxe :-)
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