Re: Spam: sorting issue

I'd write the contents of the files into a variable and then work on the 
contents of the variable. That way, you get all the content in one place, 
so that you can sort all of it.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




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Spam: sorting issue






Recently submitted a post requesting help with sorting. my situation is 
still the same. i am merging many documents. i get the sort to work but 
not correctly. it appears to be looking at only the first node of each 
file and sorting the files according to the first node. i need to sort 
each individual file first. then merge the sort of all file, or sort 
each file then merge all.

mastermerge.xsl
=====================================
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:preserve-space elements="text"/>
    <xsl:template match="masterfile">
        <merged>
            <table style="border:1px solid 
#000000;border-collapse:collapse">
                <xsl:apply-templates 
select="document(doc/@filename)/client">
                    <!-- <xsl:sort select="name"/> -->
                    <xsl:sort select="subclient/name/lname" />
                </xsl:apply-templates>
            </table>
        </merged>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="text()">
        <xsl:value-of select="translate(., '&#xA;&#xD;', '  ')"/>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="client/subclient">
        <xsl:copy>
            <!-- <tr>
                <th>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="title"/>
                </th>
            </tr> -->
            <tr>
                <td style="border:1px solid #000000">
                    <!-- <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> -->
                    <!-- <xsl:apply-templates select="name"/> -->
                    <xsl:for-each select="name">
                        <xsl:sort select="lname" order="ascending"/>
                        <xsl:value-of select="fname"/>
                        <xsl:text>  </xsl:text>
                        <xsl:value-of select="lname"/>
                    </xsl:for-each>
                    <!--
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="lname"/> -->
                </td>
                <td style="border:1px solid #000000">
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="phones"/>
                </td>
                <td style="border:1px solid #000000">
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="address"/>
                </td>
            </tr>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <!--  <xsl:for-each select="name">
        <xsl:sort select="lname"/>
              <xsl:value-of select="fname"/>
        </xsl:for-each> -->
    <xsl:template match="address">
        <xsl:for-each select="line">
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
            <br/>
        </xsl:for-each>
        <xsl:value-of select="url"/>
        <br/>
        <xsl:value-of select="email"/>
        <br/>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="name">
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
        <xsl:text>&#160;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
====================================
file1.xml
====================================

<client>
    <subclient>
        <title>A</title>
    </subclient>
    <subclient>
        <name>
            <fname>Jack</fname>
            <lname>John</lname>
        </name>
        <phones>
            <phone/>
            <ext/>
            <fax/>
        </phones>
        <address>
        <line>address 1</line>
        <line>address 2</line>
        <url>www.what.com</url>
        <email/></address>
    </subclient>
</client>
===================================
masterfile.xml
===================================
<masterfile>
    <doc filename="file1.xml"/>
    <doc filename="file2.xml"/>
</masterfile>