Hmm, I see what you mean about efficiency...  Well, it's nice to know it can
be done, and how to do it ;-).  Thanks much for the information.

-Ollie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Diamond,
> Jason
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:01 PM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE:  sorting question
>
>
> That certainly complicates things. But it is still possible using XSLT
> 1.0--although it's certainly not efficient.
>
> <xsl:transform version="1.0"
>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> >
>   <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
>
>   <xsl:template match="ALPHABET">
>     <xsl:for-each select="LETTER">
>       <xsl:sort select="."/>
>       <xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 1">
>         <tr>
>           <td>
>             <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>           </td>
>           <xsl:variable name="next" select="position() + 1"/>
>           <xsl:for-each select="../LETTER">
>             <xsl:sort select="."/>
>             <xsl:if test="position() = $next">
>               <td>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>               </td>
>             </xsl:if>
>           </xsl:for-each>
>         </tr>
>       </xsl:if>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:transform>
>
> We're basically iterating over the sorted list and then grabbing the next
> element in the sorted list by iterating over the same list
> _again_ but only
> outputting when we're at the position we want. Would this be O(n*n!)?
>
> What would be really nice would be a following-node axis (along with a
> corresponding preceding-node). This would help select the following or
> preceding nodes in the current node list (as constructed by
> <xsl:apply-templates> or <xsl:for-each>). This would obviously be specific
> to XSLT since XPath doesn't have any notion of a current node
> list. This use
> case seems like a good justification for those axis specifiers, though.
>
> Does anybody know if there is anything planned for XSLT 2.0 that
> might make
> this easier?
>
> Jason.

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