RE: Sort By Multiple Values?

Hi,
Your sort statement should probably be something like:
 <xsl:sort select="ability/@rank" order="ascending"/>
because the language element does not have a rank attribute.

<computer>
           <language>
               <ability rank="1">XML 1.0</ability>
               <type>XML</type>
           </language>
           <language>
               <ability rank="1">XSLT 1.0</ability>
               <type>XML</type>
           </language>
          <language>
               <ability rank="2">XSLT 2.0</ability>
               <type>XML</type>
           </language>
           <language>
               <ability rank="1">HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0</ability>
               <type>HTML</type>
           </language>
           <language>
               <ability rank="1">CSS</ability>
               <type>HTML</type>
           </language>

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Alice Wei [mailto:ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: December 27, 2007 1:29 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Sort By Multiple Values?

Hi,

Sorry, I have messed up my previous document in the cut and paste.
Here is the "correct" document.

I have a document here where I am attempting to sort it using multiple
values. Here is the XML:

 <computer>
           <language>
               <ability rank="1">XML 1.0</ability>
               <type>XML</type>
           </language>
           <language>
               <ability rank="1">XSLT 1.0</ability>
               <type>XML</type>
           </language>
           <language>
               <ability rank="2">XSLT 2.0</ability>
               <type>XML</type>
           </language>
           <language>
               <ability rank="1">HTML 4.01 / XHTML 1.0</ability>
               <type>HTML</type>
           </language>
           <language>
               <ability rank="1">CSS</ability>
               <type>HTML</type>
           </language>
</computer>

The XSL:

  <xsl:template match="computer">
  [<span class="skills">
                       <xsl:apply-templates select="language">
                           <xsl:sort select="@rank" order="ascending"/>
                       </xsl:apply-templates>
                   </span>]
</xsl:template>

The output now is in the same order as it is in the order of the
document w= hen the @rank value is 1, and followed by the one where
@rank=2.

[XML 1.0] [XSLT 1.0] [HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0] [CSS] [XSLT 2.0].

Is it possible that I can get it to display as

[CSS] [HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0] [XML 1.0] [XSLT 1.0] [XSLT 2.0]

?

Thanks to those who can help.

Alice Wei
MIS 2008
School of Library and Information Science Indiana University
Bloomington ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx
812-856-2659

Alice Wei
MIS 2008
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx
812-856-2659