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Subject: RE: Unusual Sort
From: "Williamson, Chris" <cwilliamson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:41:20 -0400
sort words
Wow... It really wasn't this important.  I will attempt the one guys actual
related response.  Thanks to everyone who attempted a response and to
everyone else for the flames.. It's like a yahoo chat room without the porn
bots.  :)

Thanks,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Aron Bock [mailto:aronbock@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:13 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Unusual Sort


David, *I* didn't ask the question, but nice, especially because the XSL is 
simply a concretization of a way of approaching a problem.

I'm reminded of a problem presented to Ken Thompson (the UNIX guy): find 
which words in a list are anagrams of one another.  His solution was 
beautifully elegant, especially for its simplicity.  It consisted of the 
following:

--for each word, generate a "key"--which is simply a word consisting of the 
original word's characters sorted.  Eg. for word "apple", the key is "aelpp"
--sort list based on key --extract groups of keys; their corresponding words
are anagrams of one 
another

And this is succintly expressed as an UNIX pipeline.

Anyway, your <xsl:sort select="translate('FSJ','ABC',grade)"/> gives me a 
similar feeling!

:-)

--A


>From: "Williamson, Chris" <cwilliamson@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" 
><xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject:  Unusual Sort
>Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:33:42 -0400
>
>I was wondering if there is any way to sort elements other than just 
>the regular alphabetical order.  For example,  If you wanted to sort 
>grade levels (Freshman, Sophmore, Junior, etc)  so that they are 
>displayed in the correct order and not the alphabetical order 
>(Freshman, Graduate, Junior, Senior, Sophmore). This is an optional 
>piece of my application so if It can't be done fairly easily I will 
>probably not worry about creating the functionality of the sort on 
>page..in other words if it's a huge deal don't worry about going to the 
>trouble of creating the sort.. Just let me know.
>
>Thanks
>
>Chris
>
>
>
>From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re:  Unusual Sort
>Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:42:39 +0100
>
><xsl:sort select="translate('FSJ','ABC',grade)"/>
>
>David

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