Re: muliple level sorting using xsl:sort

Hi ,
Thank you very much for your reply, I still didn't get

how it will sort , could you pls tell me how it will
work
especially why we need 
<xsl:copy-of select="code/name"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="child"/>
in for-each loop ?

--- Joris Gillis <roac@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Tempore 11:19:01, die 09/05/2005 AD, hinc in
> xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit Aravind J
> <aravindjp@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > 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 .
> 
> Somehow, you'd need to extract the last number of
> the 'n(-n)*' sequence,
> One possible solution is to rely on the fact that
> the sequence is the same as the previous level +
> '-n' :
> 
>
"substring(code/name,string-length(ancestor::Part[1]/code/name)
> + 1 + boolean(ancestor::Part))"
> 
> e.g. this stylesheet:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="AAAA|child">
> <level>
> <xsl:for-each select="Part">
> 	<xsl:sort data-type="number"
> 	 
>
select="substring(code/name,string-length(ancestor::Part[1]/code/name)
> 	  +1+boolean(ancestor::Part))"/>
> 	<xsl:copy-of select="code/name"/>
> 	<xsl:apply-templates select="child"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </level>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Will return this result:
> <level>
> 	<name>1</name>
> 	<name>2</name>
> 	<name>5</name>
> 	<level>
> 		<name>5-3</name>
> 		<name>5-4</name>
> 		<level>
> 			<name>abc</name>
> 			<name>def</name>
> 		</level>
> 	</level>
> </level>
> 
> 
> regards,
> -- 
> Joris Gillis
> (http://users.telenet.be/root-jg/me.html)
> Ceterum censeo XML omnibus esse utendum
> 
> 



	
		
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