RE: Aberrant Alphabetizing.

Hi Wendy,

You are matching on "book", then doing a "for" loop over a single
node (select="."), then sorting that single node (which is a waste
of time). I guess you wanted something like this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="books">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="book">
      <xsl:sort select="title"/>
    </xsl:apply-templates>
  </xsl:template>
  
  <xsl:template match="book">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="title"/>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Rgds,

Dan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy McFarland [mailto:wmcfarla@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 March 2003 11:40
To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Aberrant Alphabetizing.


I have run into something (embarrassingly) unexpected, using sort to
alphabetize
book titles to be printed in a catalog. The sort is working pefectly for
most of
the books. But here are 5 examples of incorrect sorting (that were, sigh,
pointed out to me by the client):

Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age
     (should be 2nd)

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
     (should be 1st)

Effectiveness of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium as a
Government-Industry Partnership
     (should be 5th)

Effective Services for Young Children: Report of a Workshop
     (should be 4th)

Effect of Environment on Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals
     (should be 3rd)


---- The XSLT -----------------
<xsl:template match="book">
     <xsl:for-each select=".">
          <xsl:sort select="title"/>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="title"/>
     </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
-------------------------------

---- The XML ------------------
<book>
     <title>Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age</title>
</book>
<book>
     <title>Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence</title>
</book>
<book>
     <title>Effectiveness of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium
as a
Government-Industry Partnership</title>
</book>
<book>
     <title>Effective Services for Young Children: Report of a
Workshop</title>
</book>
<book>
     <title>Effect of Environment on Nutrient Requirements of Domestic
Animals</title>
</book>
-------------------------------


Can anyone help me understand why the alphabetizing doesn't come out as
expected?



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