"Dimitre Novatchev [MVP XML]" <dnovatchev@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> So where is your source xml document?
>
> What is the desired result?
>
> What are the desired properties of the transformation?
>
>
> Please, be specific.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitre Novatchev [XML MVP],
> FXSL developer, XML Insider,
>
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
> Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html
>
>
> "Jiho Han" <jiho.han@infinityinfo.com> wrote in message
> news:%23QpbuyaFEHA.712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I am trying to find information/example on how to do a custom sorting
via
> > adding an extension object to the transform.
> > The requirement for the custom sorting is based on my assumption that
> nodes
> > that contain values such as datetime value will not sort correctly by
the
> > facilities provided by the stanard <xsl:sort>. Let me know if that is
not
> > the case as well.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Jiho
> >
> >
>
>

"Jiho Han" <jiho.han@infinityinfo.com> wrote in message
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> I am trying to find information/example on how to do a custom sorting via
> adding an extension object to the transform.
> The requirement for the custom sorting is based on my assumption that
nodes
> that contain values such as datetime value will not sort correctly by the
> facilities provided by the stanard <xsl:sort>. Let me know if that is not
> the case as well.
>
> Thanks!
> Jiho
>
>

"Jiho Han" <jiho.han@infinityinfo.com> wrote in message
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> I don't have a source xml but let me give you a scenario.
> Let's say we have an xml like:
>
> <persons>
> <person>
> <lastname>Smith</lastname>
> <firstname>John</firstname>
> <favoritecolor>red</favoritecolor>
> </person>
> <person>
> <lastname>Doe</lastname>
> <firstname>Jane</firstname>
> <favoritecolor>blue</favoritecolor>
> </person>
> <person>
> <lastname>Cooke</lastname>
> <firstname>Robin</firstname>
> <favoritecolor>yellow</favoritecolor>
> </person>
> </persons>
>
> Then say we want to sort the above by <favoritecolor> element values.
> However, the sorting mechanism won't be alphabetical. For
<favoritecolor>,
> proper ascending order is from warmest color to the coolest color: red,
> orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple, etc. As you can see, I came
up
> with the sorting order - based on rainbow colors. Really, the desired
> sorting order may be defined by the application arbitrarily. I am
guessing
> that this kind of sorting can only be achieved by extension objects. Let
me
> know if there is an example similar to the given scenario or any other
> resources that may be usuful for achieving the disired effects.

"Dimitre Novatchev [MVP XML]" <dnovatchev@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Jiho Han" <jiho.han@infinityinfo.com> wrote in message
> news:%239ZICMdFEHA.3448@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > I don't have a source xml but let me give you a scenario.
> > Let's say we have an xml like:
> >
> > <persons>
> > <person>
> > <lastname>Smith</lastname>
> > <firstname>John</firstname>
> > <favoritecolor>red</favoritecolor>
> > </person>
> > <person>
> > <lastname>Doe</lastname>
> > <firstname>Jane</firstname>
> > <favoritecolor>blue</favoritecolor>
> > </person>
> > <person>
> > <lastname>Cooke</lastname>
> > <firstname>Robin</firstname>
> > <favoritecolor>yellow</favoritecolor>
> > </person>
> > </persons>
> >
> > Then say we want to sort the above by <favoritecolor> element values.
> > However, the sorting mechanism won't be alphabetical. For
> <favoritecolor>,
> > proper ascending order is from warmest color to the coolest color: red,
> > orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple, etc. As you can see, I
came
> up
> > with the sorting order - based on rainbow colors. Really, the desired
> > sorting order may be defined by the application arbitrarily. I am
> guessing
> > that this kind of sorting can only be achieved by extension objects.
Let
> me
> > know if there is an example similar to the given scenario or any other
> > resources that may be usuful for achieving the disired effects.
>
> Yes, see for example "Date Sorting in pure XSLT"
> at: http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?p=3&id=v20021212030100
>
> As for generic sort in XSLT, see "Sorting with unknown number of sort keys
"
> at:
>
> http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200303/msg00007.html
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitre Novatchev [XML MVP],
> FXSL developer, XML Insider,
>
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
> Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html
>
>

"Jiho Han" <jiho.han@infinityinfo.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you Dimitre.
> Those solutions are quite nice and the second, quite complex, to be
honest,
> for me. However, I still fail to see how they would solve scenarios where
> you cannot control the format or the nature of the sort keys. For
example,
> in your first solution, you know you're going to be processing the data
> containing a certain datetime format. However, in many cases, this is not
> possible. There are possibly mutiples of tens of possibilities in how a
> datetime object may be formatted and doing something like "substring(str,
5,
> 3)" won't be adequate.
>
> Even if a problem could be resolved with such a solution as your second
> example, it might be cleaner in my opinion, to wrap the sorting mechanism
in
> an extension object, epecially when you know you will only be providing a
> solution on a certain platform - in this case, Microsoft. Do you know of
an
> example where an extension object is used instead?
>
> In any case, you have been most helpful and I can't appreciate enough how
> skillful you are with xpath/xslt.
> Thank you very much.
>
> Jiho