Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >microsoft.public.xsl Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - XSL sort for DateTime data >Thread Next - Re: XSL sort for DateTime data Re: XSL sort for DateTime dataTo: NULL Date: 9/6/2006 9:15:00 AM
"Anuradha RG" <anuradharg@g...> wrote in message
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> Iam using XSL sort in this fashion:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="ITEMS/ITEM">
> <xsl:sort select="*[name() = $SortCol]" order="{$SortOrd}"
> data-type="{$SortType}"/>
>
> When $SortCol refers to a column that contains Datetime data, it does
> not sort, since the data-type attribute supports only "text" and
> "number" types.
>
> Is there a workaround for this? Please help.
>
Yes, remove all non-numeric characters using translate and then sort by
number.
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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name
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