RE: muliple level sorting using xsl:sort

I think you need to define as your sort key the numeric value of the
code/name after the last hyphen, if there is one. In 2.0 this is easy:

<xsl:sort select="number(replace(code/name, '(.*-)?(\d*)', '$2'))"/>

Harder in 1.0, because there's no straightforward way to extract the stuff
after the last hyphen in a single XPath expression. But perhaps you could
exploit the redundancy in your data, with something like:

<xsl:sort select="number(substring-after(code/name,
concat(ancestor::Part[1]/code/name, '-')))"/>

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aravind J [mailto:aravindjp@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 05 September 2005 10:19
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  muliple level sorting using xsl:sort 
> 
> Hi ,
> I am trying to sort an xml data like
> <AAAA>
> <desc>SampleXML</desc>
> <Part>
> <code>
>   <name>1</name>
> </code>
> </Part>
> <Part>
>  <code>
>   <name>5</name>
>  </code>
>   <child type="child">
>   <Part>
>    <code><name>5-4</name></code>
>      <child type="child">
>      <Part>
>         <code><name>abc</name></code>
>      </Part>
>     <Part>
>      <code><name>def</name></code>    
>      </Part>
>    </child>
>    </Part>
>   <Part>
>   <code><name>5-3</name></code>
>   </Part>
>  </child>
> </Part>
> <Part>
> <code>
>   <name>2</name>
> </code>
> </Part>
> </AAAA>
> 
> 
> when i tried to sort the data using 
>  <xsl:for-each select="Part">
> <xsl:sort data-type="number"
> select="descendant-or-self::code/name"/> it is doing e
> first level sorting correctly, ie data is sorted in
> 1,2,5 order (code/name) . but sub parts of <part> 5 ie
> 5-3 and 5-4 are not getting sorted , similarly for
> children of 5-4 also.
> 
> Any idea how we can sort sub parts ie (child <Part> )
> also in this case .
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> Aravind
> 
> 
> 
> 
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