"Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Ron Vecchi" <vencenzo@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > Is there a way to use <xsl:sort> to sort by date.
>
> Because the date format in your example is quite irregular, I'd recommend
> processing in two passes:
>
> 1. Create a copy of the source.xml in which all dates have the same
> format, e.g. yyyymmdd
>
> 2. Sort on the date element.
>
>
> =====
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
>
>
>
> >
> > Sample xml doc I want to perform sorting on
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > <Parent>
> > <child>
> > <date>10/10/2003</date>
> > <displayText>The text that should be displayed</displayText>
> > </child>
> > <child>
> > <date>9/10/2001</date>
> > <displayText>The text that should be displayed</displayText>
> > </child>
> > <child>
> > <date>1/10/2002</date>
> > <displayText>The text that should be displayed</displayText>
> > </child>
> > </Parent>
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ron Vecchi
> >
> >
>
>

"Ron Vecchi" <vencenzo@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to use <xsl:sort> to sort by date.

>
> Sample xml doc I want to perform sorting on
> ---------------------------------------------
> <Parent>
> <child>
> <date>10/10/2003</date>
> <displayText>The text that should be displayed</displayText>
> </child>
> <child>
> <date>9/10/2001</date>
> <displayText>The text that should be displayed</displayText>
> </child>
> <child>
> <date>1/10/2002</date>
> <displayText>The text that should be displayed</displayText>
> </child>
> </Parent>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Vecchi
>
>