Try something like this:
<xsl:function name="f:sort" as="element(row)*">
<xsl:param name="data" as="element(row)"/>
<xsl:param name="sortColumnNames" as="xs:string*"/>
<xsl:param name="sortAscDesc" as="xs:string*"/>
<xsl:variable name="sorted" as="element(row)">
<xsl:perform-sort select="$data">
<xsl:sort select="*[name()=$sortColumnNames[last()]"
order="{$sortAscDesc[last()]}" stable="yes"/>
</xsl:perform-sort>
<xsl:variable>
<xsl:sequence select="if (count($sortColumnNames) eq 1
then $sorted
else f:sort($sorted, subsequence($sortColumnNames,
2), subsequence($sortAscDesc, 2))"/>
</xsl:function>
Those with grey hair will recognize this as the multi-phase sort process
used by punched card operators, sorting first by the last sort key, then the
last-but-one, and so on.
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
-----Original Message-----
From: Fabre Lambeau [mailto:fabre(_dot_)lambeau(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 14 May 2010 14:46
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Re: Dynamic number of sort key component?
I'm writing a tool that allows my users to query an XML
document a-la-SQL (but simplified).
For example, given an XML document such as:
<table>
<row>
<col name="a">1</col>
<col name="b">2</col>
<col name="c">3</col>
<col name="d">4</col>
</row>
<row>
<col name="a">bla</col>
<col name="b">bli</col>
<col name="c">blo</col>
<col name="d">blu</col>
</row>
<!-- ... -->
</table>
I'd like them to be able to say something like:
SELECT a,b,c,d
ORDER BY a ASC,b DESC
GROUP BY a,c,d
My component (XSLT stylesheet) takes that query and
effectively processes it in XSLT.
The GROUP BY statement is easy to process, since I can just
concatenate the values for the corresponding <col> elements,
and use that string as a key to a for-each-group.
However, I can't find a way to do the sorting (for which the
order is different for each individual column).
What I seem to need is the ability to have a dynamic number
of sort key components, which as far as I know is not
possible The following is obviously not possible:
<xsl:perform-sort select="col">
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize($group-by, ',')">
<xsl:sort select="col[(_at_)name=string-before(current(),' '])
order="{string-after(current(),' ']}ending"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:perform>
Can anyone think of a way to do this (whilst retaining the
ability to have a dynamic list of ORDER BY columns, each one
specifying its own order)?
Unfortunately, I don't think I have the ability to generate a
separate XSLT sheet after parsing the query string and
execute it, as my engine is all in XSLT (executed with AltovaXML)
--
Fabre Lambeau
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