On 3 Apr, 14:12, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> RedLars wrote:
> > It's almost working now, just one small problem, the xml data I'm
> > working on is not sorted. By doing <xsl:sort .. I'm able to sort the
> > list but it seems that following.sibling::node()[1] doesn't select the
> > next sorted element but the next element. So for instance when dealing
> > with computer element with number equals 1, it looks to the next
> > sibling element which in the xml file is computer element with number
> > equals 161 and not the element with number equal 2. See the 'problem'?
>
> You would need to sort into a result tree fragment and convert that to a
> node set with the MSXML extension function msxsl:node-set, see
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmls...>
> Or you need to chain two transformations, the first does the sorting,
> the second then the sibling check.
>
> --
>
>         Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
>        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Thanks for the feedback.

I'm struggling a bit with your latest comments.

Could you possibly show me a code example (or pseudo code) of how
you'd solve this problem.