Re: Natural Sort

> I don't think I can use a regular expression as the second parameter
> for substring-*

You could in XSLT2, in XSLT1 you could do:

<xsl:sort
  select="translate(substring-before(@dn, '.'),'0123456789','')"
  data-type="text"
  order="ascending"/>
<xsl:sort
  select="translate(substring-before(@dn, '.'),'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz','')"
  data-type="number"
  order="ascending"/>


so this sorts first on the text then on the numbers, so all teh media
ones would come before the members oones, but mefia10 will come after
media2.


>> <server dn="media1.mysite.com" id="server392" os="FreeBSD 5.1"/>
>> <server dn="media2.mysite.com" id="Server488" os="Fedora Core 1"/>
>>    ...
>> <server dn="media10.mysite.com" id="Server433" os="Fedora Core 1"/>

>> <server dn="members1.mysite.com" id="server322" os="Debian Linux"/>
>> <server dn="members2.mysite.com" id="Server435" os="Fedora Core 2"/>
>>    ...
>> <server dn="members10.mysite.com" id="Server491" os="FreeBSD 4.11"/>



David

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