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Re: understanding order of nodes in a table node-set
- To: "Tamre Bond" <tamre2 at msn dot com>
- Subject: Re: [xsl] understanding order of nodes in a table node-set
- From: Jeni Tennison <mail at jenitennison dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:57:45 +0100
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- Organization: Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
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Hi Tamre,
> I am having trouble understanding the order in which the elements
> appear (in the node-set) when xslt is used to transform xml data
> into a table.
[snip]
> Do these appear in document order, one transaction at a time?
Yes. When you iterate over a node set using xsl:for-each (or
xsl:apply-templates), then the nodes that you select with the select
attribute are processed in document order unless you tell the
processor to order them in some other way using xsl:sort. The
instructions inside the xsl:for-each are run for each of the nodes in
order.
> Does the fact that it is a table make a difference?
No. XSLT has no awareness of tables - all it knows is nodes.
Cheers,
Jeni
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