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RE: sorting by date
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] sorting by date
- From: "Oleg Tkachenko" <ost at olegtkachenko dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:12:02 +0200
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Hello Mike !
> The spec isn't completely unambiguous on the point,
Do you mean the following ?
"The sort must be stable: in the sorted list of nodes, any sub list that has
sort keys that all compare equal must be in document order."
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.html#sorting)
>but the general
> consensus, I think, is that order=descending should give the reverse of
> order=ascending, including for duplicates.
>
Ok, but Saxon and Xalan produce
<Item id="8">
<Date>17042000</Date>
</Item><Item id="3">
<Date>22121999</Date>
</Item><Item id="2">
<Date>07071999</Date>
</Item><Item id="9">
<Date>11011999</Date>
</Item><Item id="1">
<Date>02111998</Date>
</Item><Item id="4">
<Date>02111998</Date>
</Item><Item id="5">
<Date>02111998</Date>
</Item><Item id="6">
<Date>02111998</Date>
</Item><Item id="7">
<Date>02111998</Date>
</Item><Item id="10">
<Date>10071998</Date>
</Item>
All Item with the same sort key value are in document order.
So, who is on the right road ?
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Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International
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