RE: How to sort?

Hi,

> If this is the XML with previously missing root-elements
>
> <Documents>
>        <Document title="1" chapter="i" href="file1.xml" filter="food">
>                <Article title="1.1" info="sub" filter="drink"
> state="1"/>
>                <Article title="1.2" info="main" filter="food"
> state="3"/>
> 			   <Article title="1.3" info="main"
> filter="drink" state="2"/>
>        </Document>
>        <Document title="2" chapter="ii" href="file2.xml"
> filter="drink">
>                <Article title="2.1" info="main"
> filter="drink" state="1"/>
>                <Article title="2.1" info="sub" filter="drink"
> state="3"/>
>                <Article title="2.2" info="main" filter="food"
> state="2"/>
>        </Document>
>        <Document title="3" chapter="1" href="file2.xml" filter="">
>                <Article title="3.1" info="sub" filter="drink"
> state=""/>
>                <Article title="3.2" info="child" filter="" state="8"/>
>        </Document>
>        <Document title="4" chapter="2" href="file2.xml" filter="">
>                <Article title="3.1" info="sub" filter="drink"
> state=""/>
>                <Article title="3.2" info="main" filter="food"
> state="1"/>
>        </Document>
> </Documents>
>
>
> could this be correct XSLT for my output. Could you check it? It runs
> very slow for some reason.

I get (Saxon 6.5.3, intended in Xselerator)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Documents>
  <Document title="1" chapter="i" href="file1.xml" filter="food">
    <Article title="1.3" info="main" filter="drink" state="2"/>
    <Article title="1.2" info="main" filter="food" state="3"/>
  </Document>
  <Document title="2" chapter="ii" href="file2.xml" filter="drink">
    <Article title="2.1" info="main" filter="drink" state="1"/>
    <Article title="2.2" info="main" filter="food" state="2"/>
  </Document>
  <Document title="4" chapter="2" href="file2.xml" filter="">
    <Article title="3.2" info="main" filter="food" state="1"/>
  </Document>
</Documents>

Which engine are you using? Also, is you stylesheet

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<Documents>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="Documents/Document[Article/@info = 'main']"/>
</Documents>
 </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="Document">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
     <xsl:for-each select="Article[@info = 'main']">
       <xsl:sort select="@state" data-type="number"/>
       <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
     </xsl:for-each>
   </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

or did you embed the templates into some other stylesheet your've not showing
us?

Cheers,

Jarno - Seabound: Contact