Hi, my first steps in XML, so maybe even my concept is not the appropriate one, but let's start at the beginning:

Input:
I've got an XML file:


PHP:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<publications>
<publication SourceName="Plumtree" SourceUNID="698">
<title>STAT 2003 Q2: Factual</title>
<category>_Hidden_01. Closing Documents -STAT-</category>
<security users="" groups="1,51"/>
</publication>
...

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Output:
I need to have an XML file, which is sorted first by category and second by title.

Black Box:
I think I should use XSL, right?

My approach:



Add to the XML: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="sortPublications.xsl"?>

Write an XSL as following:


PHP:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl<img src="images/smilies/redface.gif" border="0" alt="">utput method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>

<publications>
<publication>
<xsl:sort select="category"/>
<xsl:sort select="title"/>
<xsl:attribute name="category">
<xsl:value-of select="category"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="title">
<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="security">
<xsl:attribute name="users">
<xsl:value-of select="users"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="groups">
<xsl:value-of select="groups"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute>
</publication>
<publication>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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But, hmm, XSL does not work as I do... you've got some hints?

 

 

 

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appears your trying out the same things i was ... definately go to the w3cschool and find the xml/xslt sections ... it's actually quite good. the other thing i just find is xslt works much different for IE and netscape/mozilla/etc. i eventually abandoned this because my audience is not just IE. i really don't like it ... it's like we're back 10 yrs ago where you have to do browser test and re-program for diff types (

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