XSLT sort question

[samueln12]

Hi,

I have the following content

<inline-graphic href="gkq255i1"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i2"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i3"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i100"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i10"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i11"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i99"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i101"/>

when i am try to sort it i am getting the following output

<inline-graphic href="gkq255i1"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i2"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i3"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i10"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i100"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i101"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i11"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i99"/>

but i required

<inline-graphic href="gkq255i1"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i2"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i3"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i10"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i11"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i99"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i100"/>
<inline-graphic href="gkq255i101"/>

How to do this in XSLT

Thanks
Sam

[Dormilich]

if I read the specs right, XSLT does not implement a sorting algorithm itself (although it defines some basic options), which is left to the XSLT parser. currently I see no way to sort that this way.

i could imagine it working, if you sort primarily by attribute length and then by text order, but well …

[jkmyoung]

<xsl:sort select="substring-after(@href,'gkq255i')" data-type="number"/>
If the string is not consistent, get the prefacing string into a variable, and replace 'gkq255i' with the variable.

[samueln12]

Hi ALL,

Thanks for all your support

I finally fixed by the following method

<xsl:sort select="translate(child::inline-graphic/@href, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-', '000000000000000000000000000')" data-type="number"/>

Thanks
Sam

[jkmyoung]

Thanks, interesting solution. Would probably not work for strings longer than 18 characters.