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RE: Baffled by xsl:sort - want to process nodes in reverse document order.
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- Subject: RE: Baffled by xsl:sort - want to process nodes in reverse document order.
- From: Dylan Walsh <Dylan dot Walsh at Kadius dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:07:50 +0100
- Cc: Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>
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From: Kay Michael [SMTP:Michael.Kay@icl.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 5:30 PM
To: 'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'
Subject: RE: Baffled by xsl:sort - want to process nodes in reverse
docume nt o rder.
>Which XSLT processor? I think this should work according to the spec, and I
>think it works in Saxon.
Bingo. Before I posted the question to the list, I tested this with Cocoon
(i.e. Xalan) and with XT, and the behaviour was the same in both. So I
assumed that it wasn't a bug and that somehow is what should happen. Hence
the subject "Baffled by xsl:sort..." :-)
So I tried it with Saxon, an lo, it works correctly. However, we are using
the Cocoon framework, so I will have to work around this. David Marstons
suggestion works with Cocoon, so I will use that.
Perhaps this is a difference of interpretation of the recommendation, but I
suspect it is a bug in Xalan and XT, as their behaviour really does not make
sense to me.
Thanks for your help.
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