RE: custom xsl sorting

As well as the solution using keys, an alternative using XSLT 2.0 if the
number of periods is small is

<xsl:sort select="index-of(('bronze', 'byzantine', 'roman', 'islamic'),
@period)"/>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: srinivas vemuri [mailto:s_vas98@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 08 September 2005 04:01
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  custom xsl sorting
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have to perform xsl sorting based on time period
> instead of regular ascii or integer based sorting. For
> ex: According to ascii, BYZANTINE  comes before MIDDLE
> BRONZE. But, according to this sort(time period):
> MIDDLE BRONZE comes before BYZANTINE. 
> 
> My initial idea is like this. A separate xml:
> 'period.xml' has this period to ascii mapping.
> <entry period="middlebronze">1</entry>
> <entry period="byzantine">2</entry>
> <entry period="Roman">3</entry>
> <entry period="islamic">4</entry>
> ......
> ----------------------------------------
> Now, my stylesheet should be applied to a dynamic xml
> page & should order period values occur in that page.
> 
> <dynamicpage>
> <val>Roman</val>
> <val>Islamic</val>
> <val> byzantine </val>
> </dynamicpage>
> 
> desired output after xslt application:
> 
> byzantine,  Roman, Islamic
> 
> Please help regarding how xslt should look like?
> 
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