Re: Merging attribute values to unique list

Many thanks to Jeff Beadle, Americo Albuquerque, and Dimitre Novatchev
for their different solutions.

I've used one similar to Jeff's customised just to use xalan:nodeset.
And it works in cocoon. ;-)  Which is good.

Now, I replace each of these wits with a value found in another file as such:
----
<xsl:variable name="id"><xsl:value-of select="//ant/@id|//res/@id|//prayer/@id"/></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="mss" select="document('../../mss/mss.xml')"/>
<xsl:variable name="unique-wit-list">
<xsl:call-template name="unique-token-list">
  <xsl:with-param name="str">
    <xsl:for-each select="//aBody|//rBody|//pBody">
    <xsl:text> </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="@wit"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
   </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:for-each select="xalan:nodeset($unique-wit-list)/*">
   <xsl:sort select="name()"/>
   <xsl:variable name="sigil" select="name()"/>
   <xsl:variable name="shortname" select="$mss//witness[@sigil=$sigil]/@shortname"/>
  <a href="{concat('/test/ind/', $id, '?wit=', name())}">
   <xsl:value-of select="$shortname"/></a><xsl:text>  </xsl:text>
 </xsl:for-each>
----

Which, as you can see, calls unique-token-list to tokenize the string (I
suppose I could use xalan:tokenize instead?) and for each of these
creates a link like <a href="/test/ind/a1?wit=WitA">Witness A</a>  with
the link text coming from @shortname in another file.

This works, and produces a nice list, sorted by the witness sigil....
<xsl:sort select="name()"/> ... the question is how to sort it by
the resulting $shortname instead.  <xsl:sort> needs to be the
first thing inside the <xsl:for-each> (right?) so the $shortname
variable isn't made yet.

I've tried to do something like:
<xsl:sort select="$mss//witness[@sigil=name()]/@shortname"/>
but this fails.

Basically, I want the list of links then sorted by the @shortname
that is going to be the link's text.  Possible?

-James

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