Re: Enforcing element order

Hi:

I have an xml input file as shown below:

As you can see elements image, table and text can
appear before and
after <l1>. Now in the PDF, I want all image, text and
table elements
to appear before l1 and the ones after to appear after
l1.

Here is my XSLFO piece for tjis part:

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="*[self: :image[following -sibling:
:table] or
self::image[ following- sibling:: text] or
self::image] ">
<xsl:apply-template s select="*[not( self::image) and
not(self::table[ preceding: :image]) and
not(self::text[ preceding: :image])] "/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-template s/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="mfunc/*" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="l1">
   ... do something with l1...
   <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="image">
   ... do something with image ...
   <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text">
   ... do something with text ...
   <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

Can anyone suggest a different apprach to this
problem?

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma