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As well as the solution using keys, an alternative using XSLT 2.0 if the number of periods is small is <xsl:sort select="index-of(('bronze', 'byzantine', 'roman', 'islamic'), @period)"/> Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: srinivas vemuri [mailto:s_vas98@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 08 September 2005 04:01 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: custom xsl sorting > > Hi, > > I have to perform xsl sorting based on time period > instead of regular ascii or integer based sorting. For > ex: According to ascii, BYZANTINE comes before MIDDLE > BRONZE. But, according to this sort(time period): > MIDDLE BRONZE comes before BYZANTINE. > > My initial idea is like this. A separate xml: > 'period.xml' has this period to ascii mapping. > <entry period="middlebronze">1</entry> > <entry period="byzantine">2</entry> > <entry period="Roman">3</entry> > <entry period="islamic">4</entry> > ...... > ---------------------------------------- > Now, my stylesheet should be applied to a dynamic xml > page & should order period values occur in that page. > > <dynamicpage> > <val>Roman</val> > <val>Islamic</val> > <val> byzantine </val> > </dynamicpage> > > desired output after xslt application: > > byzantine, Roman, Islamic > > Please help regarding how xslt should look like? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
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