Sorting element in xsl

Sakubar Sathik · April 6th, 2006, 01:09 AM

Is it possible to sort two elements within a same for-each loop?

Sathik Khan

mhkay · April 6th, 2006, 03:45 AM

>Is it possible to sort two elements within a same for-each loop?

Sure, you can sort any number of elements in a for-each loop.

But that's so obvious, I must have misunderstood the question. Please be a bit more specific.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Sakubar Sathik · April 6th, 2006, 03:58 AM

I have two xml element let say user id and user name in an xml file. when transforming the xml file i want to sort these two elements.

Sathik Khan

mhkay · April 6th, 2006, 04:03 AM

I think it would be clearer if you showed a sample of your input and desired output.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Sakubar Sathik · April 6th, 2006, 04:10 AM

xml file
========
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<catalog>
    <cd>
        <title>Empire Burlesque</title>
        <artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
        <country>USA</country>
        <company>Columbia</company>
        <price>10.90</price>
        <year>1985</year>
    </cd>
    <cd>
        <title>Vande Madaram</title>
        <artist>AR Rahman</artist>
        <country>India</country>
        <company>Star</company>
        <price>9.90</price>
        <year>2002</year>
    </cd>
    <cd>
        <title>Greatest Hits</title>
        <artist>Dolly Parton</artist>
        <country>USA</country>
        <company>RCA</company>
        <price>9.90</price>
        <year>1982</year>
    </cd>
</catalog>

xsl file
========
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method='html' version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' indent='yes'/>

<xsl:template match="/">

  <html>
  <body>
<table>
<tr>
    <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" bordercolor="#3366CC" border="1" id="dgReqList" style="background-color:White;border-color:#3366CC;border-width:1px;border-style:None;border-collapse:collapse;">
      <xsl:variable name="count" select="0"/>
      <xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
      <xsl:sort select="title"/>
      <tr>
    <td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="author"/></td>
      </tr>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </table></tr> </table>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Sathik Khan

Sakubar Sathik · April 6th, 2006, 04:23 AM

did u finished Michael

Regards,
Sathik Khan