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From: Martin Honnen <mahotrash@-----.-->
To: NULL
Date: 8/20/2008 3:33:00 PM


Brian Kendig wrote:
> I have an XML file containing news items, each of which has a date
> associated with it. I want to display only the news item with the most
> recent date.
> 
> This is the approach I'm using:
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="//newsItem">
>   <xsl:sort select="date" order="descending"/>

Make sure the date element has content in a sortable format like 
YYYY-MM-DD or YYYYMMDD.

>   <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
>     ...
>   </xsl:if>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> Is there a more sophisticated solution?

With XSLT 2.0 you can also use the max function e.g.

   <xsl:value-of select="max(date)"/>


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