Hi Billie,
Please find below the XSLT 1.0 solution. I have used the node-set
extension function, which is usually available in popular XSLT
processors, namely Saxon and Xalan. I don't know which XSLT processor
you are using.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:common="http://exslt.org/common";
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text" />
<xsl:template match="/employees">
<xsl:variable name="rtf">
<xsl:for-each select="employee">
<employee>
<xsl:copy-of select="*[not(self::Patent)]" />
<xsl:for-each select="Patent">
<xsl:sort select="translate(date,'-','')"
order="descending" data-type="number" />
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:for-each>
</employee>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:apply-templates select="common:node-set($rtf)/employee">
<xsl:sort select="translate(Patent[1]/date,'-','')"
order="descending" data-type="number" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="employee">
<xsl:value-of select="firstName" /><xsl:text>
</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="lastName"
/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Regards,
Mukul
On 2/9/06, Billie <whynot77(_at_)cooltoad(_dot_)com> wrote:
I'm sorry, I'm using XSLT 1.0. I should have mentioned that originally.
Billie
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