You need to do two passes: construct the output, then sort it.
You can either do that in a single stylesheet (in XSLT 1.0 you'll need the
xx:node-set() extension), or in two stylesheets chained together in a
pipeline.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Per Åberg [mailto:aberg(_dot_)per(_at_)spray(_dot_)se]
Sent: 22 August 2006 19:23
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Problem with sort order
Hi,
In my xslt file, I want to examine the attributes of the xml
elements, transform some of them (if needed), and then sort
the output after the attributes. My problem is that the
transformed attributes become sorted after their "ingoing"
value instead of their new value. The following invented
example shows the problem. According to the xsl 1.0 specs the
output of the transformation should be sorted, but here it
seems like the input is being sorted. Does anyone know how I
can get it right?
Thanks in advance,
Per
The xml-file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="xslt_file.xsl"?> <animal>
<species>
<name language="English">Wolf</name>
<name language="Spanish">Lobo</name>
<name language="Danish">Canis Lupus</name>
<name language="French">Loup</name>
</species>
</animal>
The xsl-file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="/animal">
<animal>
<xsl:apply-templates select="species"/>
</animal>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="species">
<species>
<xsl:for-each select="name">
<xsl:sort select="@language"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@language='Danish'">
<name language="Latin"><xsl:value-of
select="."/></name>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<name language="{(_at_)language}"><xsl:value-of
select="."/></name>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</species>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The output:
<animal>
<species>
<name language="Latin">Canis Lupus</name>
<name language="English">Wolf</name>
<name language="French">Loup</name>
<name language="Spanish">Lobo</name>
</species>
</animal>
The desired output:
<animal>
<species>
<name language="English">Wolf</name>
<name language="French">Loup</name>
<name language="Latin">Canis Lupus</name>
<name language="Spanish">Lobo</name>
</species>
</animal>
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