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Posted to dev@xalan.apache.org by Cory Isaacson <ci...@capita2.com> on 2000/11/02 18:37:21 UTC

Sort Example

I need to sort a document, and output it in its entirety. Does this look reasonable?

Thanks,

Cory

   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0">
   <xsl:template match="/">
     <!-- Primary Sort by a non-numeric element, ascending.-->
     <xsl:sort order="ascending" select="elem1[@attrib1='2']" />
     <!-- Secondary Sort by a numeric element, descending.-->
     <xsl:sort order="descending" data-type="number" select="elem1[@attrib1='5']" />
   </xsl:template>
  
   <!-- Copy the entire document to the output.-->
   <xsl:template match="*|@*|comment()|pi()|text()">
     <xsl:copy>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*|comment()|pi()|text()"
     </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>