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RE: [xsl] Sort by page number

2009-10-21 11:39:09
                      <xsl:sort select=".//@page[1]"/>

However, when run; nothing is sorted - as if the xsl:sort 
wasn't there at all. I suspect that maybe it searches through 
the entire document each time so that all articles are sorted 
as "page 1"? What am I doing wrong here...


You want (.//@page)[1].

Without parens, the predicate selects every page attribute that is the first
attribute of its containing element - which is completely unpredictable,
given that the order of attributes is undefined.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 


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