RE: How to sort a nodeset referenced by a variable?

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Subject: RE: How to sort a nodeset referenced by a variable?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 12:04:50 +0100

Shailendra,

At 04:19 PM 7/5/01, you wrote:

I changed the sort key from
<xsl:sort select="$fileterNode/secondElement">
to
<xsl:sort select="./secondelement" />
It started working. I think now I understand your point.

But as has been mentioned two or three times in the last few days,

./secondelement

is just the same (as an XPath expression) as

secondelement

This is because ./secondelement expands to self::node()/child::secondelement, and there's no need for the first step, since it is just traversing the tree from the context node to itself (and only then going to your secondelement children).

So <xsl:sort select="secondelement" /> would work as well (and be a teeny-tiny bit faster).

Cheers,
Wendell

At 04:19 PM 7/5/01, you wrote:

Hi Mike,
Thanks for the response I got it working.
I changed the sort key from
<xsl:sort select="$fileterNode/secondElement">
to
<xsl:sort select="./secondelement" />
It started working. I think now I understand your point.
regards,
Shailendra
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Michael
Kay
wrote:
> > I am doing something like this > > > > <xsl:variable name="filterdNode" select="//*" /> > > > > <xsl:variable name="sortedList"> > > <xsl:for-each select="$filterNode/someElement"> > > <xsl:sort select="$fileterNode/secondElement"> > > The value of your sort key will be the same for every node in the > collection. It's meaningless to use a sort key whose value doesn't depend on > the context node. > > Mike Kay > Software AG > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > >

XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

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Re: How to sort a nodeset referenced by a variable?, (continued)
- David Carlisle - Tue, 3 Jul 2001 18:11:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Michael Kay - Wed, 4 Jul 2001 04:47:22 -0400 (EDT)
  - Kumar . Shailendra - Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:00:14 -0400 (EDT)
  - Kumar . Shailendra - Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:24:38 -0400 (EDT)
    - Wendell Piez - Thu, 5 Jul 2001 12:06:07 -0400 (EDT) <=
    - Michael Kay - Thu, 5 Jul 2001 12:42:19 -0400 (EDT)
    - Kumar Shailendra - Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:10:54 -0400 (EDT)
    - Wendell Piez - Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:05:49 -0400 (EDT)

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