Re: what does xsl:sort do if "select" doesn't evaluate

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Jeni Tennison wrote:

> Hi Robert,
> 
> > what is the defined behavior for <xsl:sort> if the "select="
> > expression is not satisfied by anything?
> 
> You mean if the result of the select expression is an empty node set?

uh, yeah, that.  i'm still trying to learn the precisely correct
terminology for these things.

> The empty node set gets turned into an empty string, which will then
> be sorted in the same way as any other empty string. Usually in
> alphabetical sorting that means such nodes will be sorted before those
> whose sort key has some characters in it.

gotcha.

rday


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