Hi all,
I am trying to have a recursive sort on my xml data,
but can only manage to sort the first layer..and not as what i want too :( , been trying to do this for a couple of weeks :confused:
I would appreciate it if anyone could help me with this recursion thingy.. please... :)
my xml is like this:
<test>
<char id='1'>
<char id='3'/>
<char id='1'/>
<char id='2'/>
</char>
<char id='3'>
<char id='2'/>
<char id='1'/>
<char id='3'/>
</char>
<char id='2'>
<char id='1'>
<char id='i'/>
<char id='iv'/>
<char id='ii'/>
<char id='iii'/>
</char>
<char id='3'/>
<char id='2'/>
</char>
</test>and i want the output to look like this:
<test>
<char id='1'>
<char id='1'/>
<char id='2'/>
<char id='3'/>
</char>
<char id='2'>
<char id='1'>
<char id='i'/>
<char id='ii'/>
<char id='iii'/>
<char id='iv'/>
</char>
<char id='2'/>
<char id='3'/>
</char>
<char id='3'>
<char id='1'/>
<char id='2'/>
<char id='3'/>
</char>
</test>my xsl is like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="test ">
<xsl:call-template name="sortchar" >
<xsl:with-param name="listOfchar" select="char" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="sortchar">
<xsl:param name="listOfchar" />
<xsl:variable name="firstchar" select="$listOfchar[1]" />
<xsl:variable name="restOfchars" select="$listOfchar[position() != 1]" />
<xsl:call-template name="sort">
<xsl:with-param name="charsToSort" select="$firstchar/char" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="sort" >
<xsl:param name="charsToSort" />
<xsl:if test="$charsToSort" >
<xsl:call-template name="sortchar">
<xsl:with-param name="listOfchar" select="$charsToSort/@id" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$charsToSort/@id" >
<xsl:sort/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>Thanking everyone in advance!