Re: XSL month sorting (chronologically)

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Subject: Re: XSL month sorting (chronologically)
From: "murli bk" <bkmurali@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:13:19

javax.xml.transform.transformerexception expected

Hi Jeni, I made the change you suggested. I use the xalan processor(xalan.jar, crimson.jar). It gives an exception like below. "date" is an xml element and so i think it does not require the quotes.

file:/F:/Ctrack/XSLDateSortExample/TestEx/kay.xsl; Line 34; Column -1; Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Expected ,, but found: .....

The xsl script modified is

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
 <HEAD>
  <TITLE>
   <xsl:for-each select="eventlog">
   </xsl:for-each>
	MURALI'S MAGIC
  </TITLE>
 </HEAD>

<BODY>

<H3 ALIGN="CENTRE">
  	    EventLog Information
</H3>

  <xsl:for-each select="eventlog">
  <TABLE  border="1">

    <THEAD>
      <TR>
       <TH>Date</TH>
       <TH>Data</TH>
      </TR>
    </THEAD>

<TBODY>

<xsl:for-each select="event"> <xsl:sort select="substring(date, 8, 4)" data-type="number" /> <xsl:sort select="string-length(substring-before('JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec', substring(date,4,3))" data-type="number" /> <xsl:sort select="substring(date, 1, 2)" data-type="number" />

       <TR>
          <TD><xsl:value-of select="date"/></TD>
	   <TD><xsl:value-of select="data"/></TD>
       </TR>

</xsl:for-each>

</TBODY>

</TABLE>

</xsl:for-each>

</BODY>

</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Any idea what is wrong?

Thanks,
Murali.

From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "murli bk" <bkmurali@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  XSL month sorting (chronologically)
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:35:13 +0100

Hi Murali,

> I tried out Michael's suggestion using string-length. I am getting
> "Whitespace required before attributes" exception. What could be the
> problem.

Your stylesheet isn't well-formed. You're using double quotes inside
an attribute value that is delimited by double quotes:

> <xsl:sort > select="string-length(substring-before("JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec", > substring("date",4,3))" data-type="number" />

If you use double quotes to delimit your attribute values, it's best
to use single quotes to delimit XPath strings within those attributes:

<xsl:sort select="string-length(substring-before('JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec', substring('date',4,3))" data-type="number" />

You can find the location of this kind of error very simply, using any
XML parser. For example, simply opening the stylesheet in Internet
Explorer will pinpoint the error for you.

Cheers,

Jeni

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http://www.jenitennison.com/

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Current Thread
RE: XSL month sorting (chronologically), (continued) Michael Kay - Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:02:41 -0400 (EDT) murli bk - Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:07:08 -0400 (EDT) Jeni Tennison - Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:29:57 -0400 (EDT) Michael Kay - Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:33:06 -0400 (EDT) murli bk - Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:08:34 -0400 (EDT) <= Jeni Tennison - Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:31:06 -0400 (EDT)

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