RE: sort by attribute text

Nothing wrong with your sort specification, but
<xsl:for-each select=".">
will always iterate over a single node, so there's not much point in sorting
it.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Mike Ferrando
> Sent: 26 March 2002 17:42
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  sort by attribute text
>
>
> Dear Friends,
> I am suffering from a long night with my 5 year old who has strep.
> Can someone have mercy on me and help me out with this dumb-dumb
> question?
>
> I just want to sort the elements of different names with different
> attribute names by a substring in the attribute text (a number).
>
> code below
>
> thanks,
> Mike F.
>
> My XSL:
> <xsl:template match="*">
>  <xsl:for-each select=".">
>   <xsl:sort select="@*[substring-after(., 'rr_target_2')]"
> data-type="number"/>
>  </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> My XML:
> <C ID="rr_target2_33">data...</C>
> <C ID="rr_target2_34">data...</C>
> <R TAR="rr_target2_33">data...</R>
> <R TAR="rr_target2_34">data...</R>
>
> What I would like in my output:
> <C ID="rr_target2_33">data...</C>
> <R TAR="rr_target2_33">data...</R>
> <C ID="rr_target2_34">data...</C>
> <R TAR="rr_target2_34">data...</R>
>
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