RE: Ranking Random Nodes from Top to Bottom

Are "root" and "node" the only element names that appear?

If you had /root[1]/a[3] and /root[1]/b[5], how would you want them sorted?

I would expect that Saxon's alphanumeric collation would do quite a good job
of this:

<xsl:perform-sort select="tokenize(unparsed-text('input.txt'), '\n')">
  <xsl:sort select="."
collation="http://saxon.sf.net/collation?alphanumeric=yes"/>
</xsl:perform-sort>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Zhang [mailto:j.zhang@xxxxxx] 
> Sent: 17 August 2007 11:46
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Ranking Random Nodes from Top to Bottom
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I got a long list of absolute xpath paths in a flat file, like
> 
> /root[1]/node[2]/node[12]/node[1]
> /root[1]/node[1]
> /root[1]/node[2]/node[12]/node[1]
> /root[1]/node[4]/node[12]
> /root[1]
> 
> Is there an existing function in Saxon or ready-made code to 
> rank the list of nodes from top to bottom?
> 
> Thanks by advance!
>    jz