Re: Sort doesn't seem to sort

Lainaus Steve Dondley <stevedondley@xxxxxxxxx>:

| I'm learning XML and running trivial examples from a book.  However, I
| stumbled on a problem with this XSL code snippet:
| 
|       <xsl:for-each select="//vendor" >
|       <xsl:sort select="vendor_name"/>
|       <h2><xsl:value-of select="vendor_name"/></h2>
|       </xsl:for-each>
| 
| Within the XML doc, there are vendor names that appear in the following
| order in the XML doc:
| 
| Conners Chair Company
| Just a Vendor
| Wally's Wonderful World of Furniture
| Crazy Marge's Bed Emporium
| Zu Zu's Pedals
| 
| When I process the doc with IE 6.0, the vendor names are output in this
| order:
| 
| Wally's Wonderful World of Furniture
| Just a Vendor
| Zu Zu's Pedals
| Conners Chair Company
| Crazy Marge's Bed Emporium
| 
| This isn't the expected alphabetical order output.  What gives?
| 
| 
|  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
| 
| 

Dont know about IE transformations, but with XalanC++ I get the right answer:

RESULT:
<h2>Conners Chair Company</h2>
<h2>Crazy Marge's Bed Emporium</h2>
<h2>Just a Vendor</h2>
<h2>Wally's Wonderful World of Furniture</h2>
<h2>Zu Zu's Pedals</h2>

XML what I used:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<vendors>
<vendor>
<vendor_name>Conners Chair Company</vendor_name>
</vendor>
<vendor>
<vendor_name>Just a Vendor</vendor_name>
</vendor>
<vendor>
<vendor_name>Wally's Wonderful World of Furniture</vendor_name>
</vendor>
<vendor>
<vendor_name>Crazy Marge's Bed Emporium</vendor_name>
</vendor>
<vendor>
<vendor_name>Zu Zu's Pedals</vendor_name>
</vendor>
</vendors>

Transformation file (xslt) is the same as yours. 


Cheers, 
Jarkko

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