Re: Re: Node Selection

Jeni Tennison wrote:

> > I am using Xalan for xsl transformations. I have some xml with
> > multiple <Activity> nodes in it for each part that is processed. The
> > activity nodes are not sorted in any way in the xml. I want to
> > select only the latest activity (by Date, Time) to process in the
> > transform for my output to show the last activity scan on this part
> > and ignore all other activity scans.
> 
> The easiest way to do this is to sort the Activity elements by their
> Date and Time (in descending order), and then choose the first one
> only to go on and process:
> 
> <xsl:template match="Part">
>    <xsl:for-each select="Activity">
>       <xsl:sort select="Date" order="descending" />
>       <xsl:sort select="Time" order="descending" />
>       <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
>          <xsl:apply-templates select="." />
>       </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> I hope that helps,
> 
> Jeni

This is one of the most inefficient ways to find a maximum and Jeni must know it.
In case there are thousands of nodes to be sorted, the unnecessary wait will be due
exactly to following such an advice.

I hope this really helped.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.




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