Re: Concatenating a nodeset (set of attributes)

Hi Geert,

On 10/8/05, Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The depth of the STRUC elements is arbitrary.
>
> If you know there is a resonable limit to the recusion depth you could do
the following:

Well, I would guess that no Table Of Contents will have 10 levels.

>
> <xsl:sort select="number(concat(@pos, '.', STRUCT/@pos, STRUCT/STRUCT/@pos,
> STRUCT/STRUCT/STRUCT/@pos, ...)" data-type="number" />
>

Very smart with making the value a real number (as opposed to an
integer). This will make the sorting work even on TOC fragments of
different depths. The only problem in this is the case of pos="14" as
opposed to pos="2". I have never used format-number before, but I
guess that this would be what it would be good for:
<xsl:sort
select="number(concat(@pos,'.,STRUC/STRUCT/format-number(@pos,'00'),..."
data-type="number"/>

But this sure is unwieldy, and now we have two conditions: that the
depths is less than a certain number and that there are no more than
99 child nodes to a given structure element.

> Otherwise I would suggest a multistep process or refering to extensions..

Well, extensions I can certainly make myself, but I haven't been able
to find a multistep process to doing this. I am very curious on how to
do this.

Thanks,
Ragulf Pickaxe :-)