RE: RE: alternating node type in a loop

Dimitre,

Thanks for the comments.


> Just a minor remark: in case there are many different values for the
> "type" attribute, it would be necessary to split the xsl:sort
> instruction into two, each specifying data-type="number".
> 
> This is necessary, because when sorted as text "10" comes before "2".


Oh yes - I always forget about data-type.  So the corrected version is:

<xsl:apply-templates select="article">
	<xsl:sort
select="count(preceding-sibling::article[@type=current()/@type])" 
		data-type="number"/>
	<xsl:sort select="@type" data-type="number"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>

Much better.


> > Note that an old version of MSXML that is in my copy of 
> XMLSpy didn't
> > process this correctly, but Saxon 6.5.2 did.
> 
> Actually, the buggy processor is MSXML4, MSXML3 produces the correct
> result.
> 

Ah - and now that I do a bit of digging I see that it was posted here a
while back:

http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200204/msg01421.html

Anyone know when/if MS will fix this?

Thanks,
David.


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