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Subject: Re: Sorting problem...
From: cutlass <cutlass@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:01:49 +0000
xml sort folder
David M. Goudreau wrote:

I'm trying to sort some concatenated strings in a dropdown box in my XSL.
(I'm also sure there's a more compact way to write my XSL, frankly).  My XML
is:

<root sub_id="84">
	<folder name="c" cdate="2/13/01" id="f_49">
		<folder name="m" cdate="2/13/01" id="f_42" />
	</folder>
	<folder name="y" cdate="2/13/01" id="f_45" />
	<folder name="d" cdate="2/13/01" id="f_43" />
	<folder name="r" cdate="2/13/01" id="f_44" />
	<folder name="d" cdate="2/13/01" id="f_49">
		<folder name="t" cdate="2/13/01" id="f_42">
			<folder name="z" cdate="2/13/01" id="f_42">
		</folder>
	</folder>
</root>

I want my output to look alphabetical like the following:

-c
--c:m
-d
--d:t
---d:t:z
-r
-y

My XSL looks like this:

try using something like <xsl:sort select="@name"/> to handle your alpha sort first, the rest is recursion


-------------------------------

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="root">


<xsl:apply-templates select="folder">
<xsl:sort lang="en" select="@name" data-type="text"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>


</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="folder">
<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
-------------------------------

i leave the select / option tag stuff to u.

w3 org on sorting
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl#sorting

xsl faq on sorting in general
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/N6461.html#N35304

,jim fuller


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