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I have quite a large XSL document for an assignment that does a number of things. It is nearly complete but I missed a requirement that it has to be sorted and I cannot get it working. Here is a SSCCE of what is happening.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<!-- Root Document -->
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="staff">
<xsl:sort select="member/last_name" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="member">
<xsl:value-of select="first_name" /> <xsl:value-of select="last_name" /> <br/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The XML file looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="sort.xsl"?>
<staff>
<member>
<first_name>Joe</first_name>
<last_name>Blogs</last_name>
</member>
<member>
<first_name>John</first_name>
<last_name>Smith</last_name>
</member>
<member>
<first_name>Steven</first_name>
<last_name>Adams</last_name>
</member>
</staff>
I was expecting the staff members to be listed by last name but they are not getting sorted. Please bear in mind that I am very inexperienced at XSLT.
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<xsl:apply-templates select="staff">
<xsl:sort select="member/last_name" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
selects the staff elements and sorts them, but there is only one staff element, so this is a no-op.
Change to
<xsl:apply-templates select="staff/member">
<xsl:sort select="last_name" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
then that selects all the member elements and sorts them.
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