RE: Variable containing sorted node-set?

> The document is marked up with <index> tags. In others
> languages, it would
> be natural to put these elements in a list and sort the list.
> And *then*
> doing smart things with that sorted list. I have found no way
> of doing this
> in XSLT. Is it possible to get a variable of sorted <index> elements?

XSLT 1.0 has five data types: boolean, number, string, node-set, and
result-tree-fragment. Node-sets are no use to you here, because by
definition sets don't hold ordering information. Your best bet is a result
tree fragment; though this can only hold copies of the original nodes rather
than references to them; and you need the xx:node-set() extension to process
the RTF.

Mike Kay


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