RE: processing order

The short answer is, "You can't have that." Processing order is not guaranteed. The XSLT  processor may optimize in any way it sees fit.

The long answer is a question. "Why do you think you need to specify the processing order?"

When you've answered that question, we can get to a solution to the problem.
-- 
Charles Knell
cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email



-----Original Message-----
From:     goncode <gonzalocordero@xxxxxxx>
Sent:     Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:21:08 -0700
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:   processing order

  Hi everyone:

This is my input:

<root>

 <dir name="StartMenu" label="StartMenu" icon="folder" size="340" 
modified="Fri Mar 23 15:21:47 PDT 2007" flags="1" 
path="/System/StartMenu" bgColor="null" bgImage="null" bgImageMode="2">
<dir name="Bookmarks" label="Bookmarks" icon="folder" size="238" 
modified="Fri Mar 16 11:53:15 PDT 2007" flags="1" 
path="/System/StartMenu/Bookmarks" bgColor="null" bgImage="null" 
bgImageMode="2"/>
<dir name="Control Panels" label="Control Panels" icon="folder" 
size="272" modified="Thu Mar 22 16:11:36 PDT 2007" flags="1" 
path="/System/StartMenu/Control Panels" bgColor="null" bgImage="null" 
bgImageMode="2"/>
<dir name="Programs" label="Programs" icon="folder" size="374" 
modified="Fri Mar 16 11:53:15 PDT 2007" flags="1" 
path="/System/StartMenu/Programs" bgColor="null" bgImage="null" 
bgImageMode="2"/>
<dir name="Widgets" label="Widgets" icon="folder" size="442" 
modified="Tue Mar 20 10:50:12 PDT 2007" flags="1" 
path="/System/StartMenu/Widgets" bgColor="null" bgImage="null" 
bgImageMode="2"/>
<file name="Help.desktop" label="Help" size="96" modified="Thu Mar 15 
09:46:45 PDT 2007" flags="66"/>
<file name="Logout.desktop" label="Logout" size="97" modified="Thu Mar 
22 15:18:05 PDT 2007" flags="66"/>
<file name="Synchronizer.desktop" label="Synchronizer" size="113" 
modified="Thu Mar 15 10:07:22 PDT 2007" flags="66"/>
<result status="ok" timeTaken="479"/>
</dir>
<result status="ok" timeTaken="577"/>
</root>

and I want these two elements

<file name="Help.desktop" label="Help" size="96" modified="Thu Mar 15 
09:46:45 PDT 2007" flags="66"/>
<file name="Logout.desktop" label="Logout" size="97" modified="Thu Mar 
22 15:18:05 PDT 2007" flags="66"/>

To be processed always last no matter what order they come from the xml 
file. They are children of this node:

<dir name="StartMenu" label="StartMenu" icon="folder" size="340" 
modified="Fri Mar 23 15:21:47 PDT 2007" flags="1" 
path="/System/StartMenu" bgColor="null" bgImage="null" bgImageMode="2">

and this is how my template looks like:


<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xs:template>

<xsl:template match="dir">
process node
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="file">
process node
</xsl:template>


How can I achieve that?

Thanks.