RE: When does sort occur?

The order in which an XSLT processor does things is not defined. But it
is defined that position() refers to the position in the sorted
sequence.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Ragulf Pickaxe
> Sent: 13 June 2003 09:23
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  When does sort occur?
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I know this has been said, but I can't find it among those 
> thousands of 
> questions about sorting.
> 
> If I apply a template with a sort, as:
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="node" mode="getmax">
>   <xsl:sort select="@num" order="descending" 
> data-type="number"/> </xsl:apply-templates>
> 
> will the sorting occur during the select, before the matching 
> template is 
> called, so I can do:
> 
> <xsl:template match="node" mode="getmax">
>   <!-- I want only the <node> element that has the @num with 
> the highest 
> numerical value -->
>   <xsl:if test="position()=1"><xsl:value-of 
> select="."/></xsl:if> </xsl:template>
> 
> or will the sorting occur after all the nodes have been 
> processed in the 
> matching template?
> 
> I hope that the question is understandable.
> 
> Ragulf Pickaxe :)
> 
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