Re: sort order="descending" question

Its taking the result as a Strint and not a number I
guess and thats the problem.
Thanks
Abhi

--- "Jessica P. Hekman" <jphekman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm getting some weird behavior, and I've tried
> using three different XSLT 
> processors, all of which do the same thing; so it
> must be me 
> misunderstanding XSLT.
> 
> Basically, I have a list of elements in the input
> document, and I'm trying
> to reverse their order in the output document.
> 
> Input:
> 
>   <bar>
>     <baz>1</baz>
>     <baz>2</baz>
>     <baz>3</baz>
>     <baz>4</baz>
>     <baz>5</baz>
>     <baz>6</baz>
>     <baz>7</baz>
>     <baz>8</baz>
>     <baz>9</baz>
>     <baz>10</baz>
>     <baz>11</baz>
>     <baz>12</baz>
>   </bar>
> 
> XSL:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0">
> 
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     <bar>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="/bar/baz">
>         <xsl:sort select="position()"
> order="descending"/>
>       </xsl:apply-templates>
>     </bar>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="baz">
>     <baz><xsl:apply-templates/></baz>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> Output:
> 
> <bar>
>   <baz>9</baz>
>   <baz>8</baz>
>   <baz>7</baz>
>   <baz>6</baz>
>   <baz>5</baz>
>   <baz>4</baz>
>   <baz>3</baz>
>   <baz>2</baz>
>   <baz>12</baz>
>   <baz>11</baz>
>   <baz>10</baz>
>   <baz>1</baz>
> </bar>
> 
> 
> So I'd expect the output to be 12, 11, 10, 9, 8...
> But it's out of order. 
> If I have only 9 elements, they are output in order;
> it's when I add the 
> tenth that this misordering starts. All processors I
> tried (Sablotron, 
> xsltproc, and Xalan) produced exactly the same
> output.
> 
> Does anyone know what's going on?
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Jessica
> 
> 
> 
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