perform-sort and sequence : perform sort « XSLT stylesheet « XML

1. XML
2. XSLT stylesheet
3. perform sort

perform-sort and sequence

File: Data.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<addressbook>
  <address>
    <name>
      <title>Mr.</title>
      <first-name>A</first-name>
      <last-name>B</last-name>
    </name>
    <street>1234 Main Street</street>
    <city>Regina</city>
    <state>WI</state>
    <zip>48392</zip>
  </address>
</addressbook>

File: Transform.xslt

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:variable name="sortedCities" as="xs:string*">
      <xsl:perform-sort>
        <xsl:sort select="."/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="addressbook/address/city"/>
        <xsl:sequence select="('London', 'Adelaide', 'Rome')"/>
        <xsl:sequence select="('Jakarta', 'Sao Paulo', 'Timbuktu')"/>
      </xsl:perform-sort>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:text>Our customers live in these cities:&#xA;&#xA;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="$sortedCities" separator="&#xA;"/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

Our customers live in these cities:

Adelaide
Jakarta
London
Regina
Rome
Sao Paulo
Timbuktu

 

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