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Re: Client-side sorting without Microsoft extensions?

• To: Ken Sall <kensall@c...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Client-side sorting without Microsoft extensions?
• From: "m batsis" <mbatsis@n...>
• Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 11:18:03 +0300
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Ken,

IMHO, XSLT is a really bad option for what you are asking. JavaScript is 
much better for sorting tables based on the column type, since XSLT is 
an overhead and does not have a Date type.

You can find a JavaScript Implementation of a table sorter and a use 
sample attached. You can use it to sort based on date (various formats), 
numbers etc. Sorry for the poor documentation (and the example in Greek 
;-) but I was in a real hurry... you just got written permission to do 
whatever with it. I'll probably group this script with some other stuff 
and package it under the GPL or something when I find some time.

If you still want a crossbrowser XSLT API for javascript, I can email 
you something I'm working on (stable code, no errors or bugs) when I get 
home (in a day or two). Note however, that the XSLT interfaces for 
Mozilla/Netscape are not stable, meaning they'll probably change in a 
future release.

Cheers,

Manos

Ken Sall wrote:

>Does anyone know a cross-browser solution for XSLT access to the DOM to sort
>XML data in-place that works for *both* Netscape 6+ and IE 5.5+?
>
>In other words, my stylesheet renders XML in tabular form (as HTML) and I'm
>using Microsoft-specific XML DOM and XSLT features to enable client-side
>sorting of data merely by clicking on the column heading, based on a
>technique illustrated in an XML-J article [1]. The core of the
>Microsoft-specific code follows:
>
>    oldXMLDOM = document.all.participantsXML.XMLDocument;  // data
>    oldXSLDOM = document.all.tableXSL.XMLDocument;   // stylesheet
>    newHTML = oldXMLDOM.transformNode(oldXSLDOM);
>    document.all.tableBody.innerHTML = newHTML;
>....
>   XSLIsland = document.all.tableXSL.XMLDocument;
>   var objSelect =
>     XSLIsland.selectSingleNode("//xsl:sort/@select");
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>[1] XML Journal, Volume 3, Issue 5; http://www.sys-con.com/xml/
>
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>- XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide (just published)
>- http://WDVL.Internet.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/XMLFamily/
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