Hi all!

Let's say I have this XML

<whatever>
  <nbPeople>2</nbPeople>
  <nbAnimals>4</nbAnimals>
  <nbInvertebrates>1</nbInvertebrates>
</whatever>

I already have this in my stylesheet

<xsl:call-template name="print">
  <xsl:with-param name="people" select="nbPeople"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="animals" select="nbAnimals"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="invertebrates" select="nbInvertebrates"/>
</xsl:template>


I'd like to print out a line with params sorted, like:

"1 invertebrate, 2 people, 4 animals"

I want to use <xsl:sort> some way, but I can't figure out how...

<xsl:template name="print">
  <xsl:param name="people"/>
  <xsl:param name="animals"/>
  <xsl:param name="invertebrates"/>

  <xsl:for-each select=" ? ">



  </xsl:for-each>



</xsl:template>


Any help will be appreciated,

Rushman

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You can do

<xsl:for-each select="$people|$animals|$invertebrates">
  <xsl:sort select="." data-type="number"/>


Alternatively, why not pass a single parameter which can be either (a) the union of these three node-sets, or (b) the parent <whatever> element?

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

Thanks Mister Kay for your answer. However, after reviewing my XML and XSL, I realized that it was a little more complicated. In fact, the parameters get passed as a sum instead of passing the elements. i.e.:

<whatever>
  <nbPeople>2</nbPeople>
  <nbAnimals>4</nbAnimals>
  <nbPeople>1</nbPeople>
  <nbInvertebrates>1</nbInvertebrates>
</whatever>

I already have this in my stylesheet

<xsl:call-template name="print">
  <xsl:with-param name="people" select="sum(nbPeople)"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="animals" select="sum(nbAnimals)"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="invertebrates" select="sum(nbInvertebrates)"/>
</xsl:template>

I'd like to print out a line with params sorted, like:

"1 invertebrate, 3 people, 4 animals"

I can't use <xsl:for-each select="$people|$animals|$invertebrates"> since these variable are numbers now...

I'm using XSLT 1.0 with Xalan (Eh! It's not MY choice...) Maybe an extension function can help me somehow...

Thanks again,

Rushman

It can't be done unless you either pass the names along with the totals or have some sort of look up within the template. Information loss occur when you sum before passing to the template. You're better off redesigning as Michael suggests and passing the parent node to begin with.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)