Thanks to both of you for the explanations. And indeed, using "!" works fine
for me.
Regards,
Patrik
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Betreff: Re: [xsl] ordered selection of child elements
As to Patrik’s question “why”?
1. “Why” in the sense of “where is this behavior specified?”
https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/#id-path-operator
If every evaluation of E2 returns a (possibly empty) sequence of nodes, these
sequences are combined, and duplicate nodes are eliminated based on node
identity. The resulting node sequence is returned in document order.
2. Why is it specified to behave like this?
Probably because of the deduplication requirement. If the right-hand side
expression E2 initially returns the sequences (c, b, a) and (a, b)
*and* you want to deduplicate the combined sequence, there will be an
ambiguity
whether to return (c, a, b) or (c, b, a). With the additional document order
requirement it will reduce to (a, b, c) if we assume that this reflects the
document
order.
3. Which purpose does the deduplication requirement serve?
I think this comes in very handy at times.
As Martin said, you can use the ! operator or a 'for $var in E1 return
($var/a,
$var/b)' expression if you want the post-/ evaluation results returned in this
particular order and if you don’t want to repeat E1.
Gerrit
Gerrit
On 08/03/2018 07:54, Martin Honnen martin(_dot_)honnen(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de
wrote:
Am 08.03.2018 um 07:36 schrieb Dr. Patrik Stellmann
patrik(_dot_)stellmann(_at_)gdv-dl(_dot_)de:
Hi,
a question more motivated by curiosity than by a real problem:
With
<xsl:sequence select=“a, b“/>
I will get first element a and second element b – no matter of the
order within the input document.
But with
<xsl:sequence select=“root/(a, b)“/>
I will get the elements a and b in document order. So this behaves
identical to
<xsl:sequence select=“root/(a | b)“/>
Why?
Of course I could write
<xsl:sequence select=“root/a, root/b“/>
To ensure a specific order. But sometimes the expression of “root” is
much more complex so I’d like to avoid writing it twice or putting it
in a variable…
You can move to XPath/XSLT 3 and use the "!" operator
root!(a, b)
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