[xep-support] Index Sort Problem (no index output produced when sort statement is used)

[Chris Cosentino]

Thanks Ken, that did the trick.

Thanks for your book too! It has been very helpful. I suppose I should go 
buy a book on XSLT now as well :-)

-Chris

At Wednesday 05:10 PM 2/18/2004, G. Ken Holman wrote:
>At 2004-02-18 13:58 -0500, Chris Cosentino wrote:
>>I'm experiencing some odd behavior with sort.

[snip]


>Yes ... you haven't learned that <xsl:sort/> is an *empty* element ... the 
>select attribute should be a relative specification, but it has *no* 
>content.  It is a modifier of the <xsl:for-each> instruction.
>
>Try:
>
><xsl:template name="index">
><fo:block>
>INDEX
><xsl:for-each select="//indexentry">
>         <xsl:sort/>
>         <fo:block font="11pt Times" space-before.optimum="6pt">
>             <fo:wrapper text-transform="lowercase">
>             <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>             <fo:leader leader-pattern="dots"/>
>             <fo:page-number-citation ref-id="{generate-id()}"/>
>             </fo:wrapper>
>         </fo:block>
></xsl:for-each>
></fo:block>
></xsl:template>
>
>>Obviously I need to read up on XPath a little better for my select 
>>statements, but I still don't understand why nothing is output with even 
>>just a basic sort.
>
>All you've done is improperly formed the instruction.  Your XSLT processor 
>should have flagged the illegal content to <xsl:sort/> ... it is an empty 
>instruction.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>................... Ken

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