Xalan, too (was: Making sorted balanced two-column tables...)

[David_Marston at lotus dot com]

>> I am trying to create a two column table from unsorted data.
>> ...
>> Anybody know of a way to create a sorted list of nodes and be
>> able store in a variable for later use?

>You can store the sorted list in a variable of type result-tree-fragment
>without difficulty, as your code shows, but if you want to do further
>processing on it you have to convert the r-t-f to a node-set, which can't
be
>done in standard XSLT. Saxon, xt, and MSXML3, however, provide mechanisms
to
>do this.

As of Wednesday (26 July), Xalan also has a "nodeset" function, thanks to
Gary Peskin. (Version 1.2D01)
.................David Marston


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