When does sort occur?

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Subject: When does sort occur?
From: "Ragulf Pickaxe" <jawxml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:22:59 +0000

Hello all,

I know this has been said, but I can't find it among those thousands of questions about sorting.

If I apply a template with a sort, as:

<xsl:apply-templates select="node" mode="getmax">
 <xsl:sort select="@num" order="descending" data-type="number"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>

will the sorting occur during the select, before the matching template is called, so I can do:

<xsl:template match="node" mode="getmax">  <xsl:if test="position()=1"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:if> </xsl:template>

or will the sorting occur after all the nodes have been processed in the matching template?

I hope that the question is understandable.

Ragulf Pickaxe :)

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When does sort occur? Ragulf Pickaxe - Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:23:35 -0400 (EDT) <= David Carlisle - Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:47:16 -0400 (EDT) Michael Kay - Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:31:54 -0400 (EDT) <Possible follow-ups> Jarno . Elovirta - Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:45:36 -0400 (EDT) Ragulf Pickaxe - Fri, 13 Jun 2003 05:16:10 -0400 (EDT)

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