Given:
<Root>
<Stuff>stuff</Stuff>
<Annotation>
<Comment Priority="1">my first comment</Comment>
</Annotation>
<Annotation>
<Comment Priority="3">my third comment</Comment>
</Annotation>
<Annotation>
<Comment Priority="2">my second comment</Comment>
</Annotation>
<Bother>bother</Bother>
</Root>
Using XSL 1.0 / MSXML6.0, I want to produce the Annotation elements
sorted by @Priority, e.g.
stuff
my first comment
my second comment
my third comment
bother
Constraints:
1. Preceding and following elements e.g. <Stuff> and <Bother>, and
possibly other elements, are optional in the source XML, but must be
output in sequence wrt comments
2. The parent element (i.e. <Root>) may have a different name
3. The child element of <Annotation> may have a different name, e.g. <Note>
4. <Comment> may have one or more sibling elements within <Annotation>, e.g.
<Annotation>
<Comment Priority="1">comment</Comment>
<Metadata>blah</Metadata>
</Annotation
I tried this:
<xsl:template match select="Annotation">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*">
<xsl:sort select="*/@Priority"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template match>
which of course fails because there's only ever one "*/@Priority" for
each Annotation.
And this:
<xsl:template match select="Root">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*">
<xsl:sort select="*/@Priority"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template match>
which produces:
stuff
bother
my first comment
my second comment
my third comment
which produces the <Comment> elements in the correct order but out of
sequence with their sibling elements.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Philip
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