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RE: in place ordering of XML

• To: "'Ramkumar Menon'" <ram.menon@o...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: in place ordering of XML
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:44:12 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <3F58319B.4090407@o...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

Your specification of the problem is very incomplete, but my design
approach would be to generate from the schema an XSLT stylesheet of the
form:

<xsl:variable name="element-list"
select="'foo bar pooh ... '"/>

<xsl:template match="...">
  <xsl:for-each select="*">
  <xsl:sort select="string-length(substring-before($element-list,
                         concat(name(), ' ')"
            data-type="number"/>
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Michael Kay

> 
> My Application is  recieving a sequence of XML Nodes. I need 
> to create a 
> XML Doc from these ,having all these nodes in order as 
> dictated by the 
> schema , "in the most efficient of ways"..
> For e.g. if the schema is saying
> 
> <xsd:element name = "foo">
> <xsd:element name = "bar">
> <xsd:element name = "pooh">
> 
> If I get the xml nodes in the order "bar", "pooh" and "fooh", 
> the tree 
> should be built with these in order as in the schema.
> 
> i.e.
> <target>
> <foo>
> <bar>
> <pooh>
> </target>
> 
> Any help wuld be appreciated.
> 
> rgds,
> Menon
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ramkumar Menon,
> Oracle India Pvt Ltd,
> Bangalore - 82
> 
> 
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