Re: Save the sorted xml in a variable

I think you have to use ms:node-set($sorted).

Regards,
Mukul

On 7/26/05, John Robb <john_ok@xxxxxx> wrote:
> How is it possible to save the sorted xml in a variable and then apply
> to it some xsl elements.
> I'm using the following xsl but it doesn't work.I want to sort it by
> @sector and @subsector(see xml file bellow).In $sorted I just see the
> values of elements in <data> tags at the end/beginning.
> xsl:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>  xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
>        <xsl:output media-type="xml"/>
>        <xsl:variable name="sorted">
>                <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy" select="data"/>
>        </xsl:variable>
>        <xsl:template match="@*|node()" mode="copy">
>                <xsl:copy>
>                        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()">
>                                <xsl:sort select="@sector"/>
>                                <xsl:sort select="@subsector"/>
>                        </xsl:apply-templates>
>                </xsl:copy>
>        </xsl:template>
>        <xsl:template match="/">
>                <xsl:apply-templates select="ms:node-set($sorted)/*" mode="main"/>
>        </xsl:template>
>        <xsl:template match="item" mode="main">
>                <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>        </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> AND the XML :
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
> <data>
>        <item id="i1"   sector="s1"     subsector="u1">561</item>
>        <item id="i10"  sector="s3"     subsector="u4">15</item>
>        <item id="i22"  sector="s2"     subsector="u2">1234</item>
>        <item id="i11"  sector="s1"     subsector="u2">123</item>
>        <item id="i17"  sector="s1"     subsector="u3">165</item>
>        <item id="i61"  sector="s2"     subsector="u1">346</item>
>        <item id="i12"  sector="s2"     subsector="u5">3425</item>
>        <item id="i2"   sector="s3"     subsector="u4">78</item>
>        <item id="i14"  sector="s3"     subsector="u4">51</item>
>        <item id="i21"  sector="s1"     subsector="u5">346</item>
>        <item id="i39"  sector="s3"     subsector="u2">463</item>
>        <item id="i44"  sector="s2"     subsector="u3">151</item>
>        <item id="i89"  sector="s1"     subsector="u1">451</item>
>        <item id="i81"  sector="s2"     subsector="u4">771</item>
>        <item id="i36"  sector="s2"     subsector="u5">5654</item>
>        <item id="i27"  sector="s3"     subsector="u3">362</item>
>        <item id="i15"  sector="s1"     subsector="u5">234</item>
>        <item id="i18"  sector="s3"     subsector="u2">73</item>
>        <item id="i51"  sector="s3"     subsector="u5">567</item>
>        <item id="i26"  sector="s1"     subsector="u4">17</item>
>        <item id="i95"  sector="s3"     subsector="u5">67489</item>
>        <item id="i13"  sector="s1"     subsector="u3">54</item>
>        <item id="i71"  sector="s1"     subsector="u3">2</item>
>        <item id="i23"  sector="s2"     subsector="u1">345</item>
>        <item id="i7"   sector="s2"     subsector="u1">67</item>
>        <item id="i80"  sector="s1"     subsector="u3">7754</item>
> 
>         <sector id="s1">Sector 1</sector>
>        <sector id="s2">Sector 2</sector>
>        <sector id="s3">Sector 3</sector>
> 
>        <subsector id="u1">Subsector 1</subsector>
>        <subsector id="u2">Subsector 2</subsector>
>        <subsector id="u3">Subsector 3</subsector>
>        <subsector id="u4">Subsector 4</subsector>
>        <subsector id="u5">Subsector 5</subsector>
> </data>
> 
> 
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