Re: Unusual Sort

Williamson, Chris wrote:

> I was wondering if there is any way to sort elements other than just the
> regular alphabetical order.  For example,  If you wanted to sort grade
> levels (Freshman, Sophmore, Junior, etc)  so that they are displayed in the
> correct order and not the alphabetical order (Freshman, Graduate, Junior,
> Senior, Sophmore). This is an optional piece of my application so if It
> can't be done fairly easily I will probably not worry about creating the
> functionality of the sort on page..in other words if it's a huge deal don't
> worry about going to the trouble of creating the sort..

In simple cases you can define lookup table in your document that will
map your values to sort values. E.g.

<g:grades>
   <grade sortas="1">Freshman</grade>
   <grade sortas="2">Sophmore</grade>
   ...
</g:grade>

And then translate grade text to ordinal number:
....
<xsl:sort select="document('')//g:grades/grade[. =
current()/grade]/@sortas" data-type="number"/>
....

				Jirka

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