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Re: sorting elements

• To: esteban.pizzini@g...
• Subject: Re: sorting elements
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:22:07 GMT
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <87c90c1e0602010557u58f16554y1f4e755c4ee54fd0@m...>(message from Esteban Pizzini on Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:57:00 -0300)
• References: <87c90c1e0602010557u58f16554y1f4e755c4ee54fd0@m...>

You didn't say what language you are using to do the sort. In XSLT2 for
example you could use something like

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="x">
<x>
<xsl:perform-sort select="*">
<xsl:sort select="string-join(for $i in tokenize(.,'\.') return 
                                format-number(number($i),'000000'),'.')"/>
</xsl:perform-sort>
</x>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


$ saxon8 srt.xml srt.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<x>
   <art>1</art>
   <art>1.1</art>
   <art>2</art>
   <art>2.1</art>
   <art>2.1.1</art>
</x>


Of course if your example is really representative, and all your numbers
are single digits then you don't need to split things up and rejoin, you
can just use
<xsl:sort select="."/>
which of course is also easy to do in xslt1

David


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