Chapter 9
Tweaking the Results to Get What You Want
In This Chapter
Sorting text and numeric results
Changing sort order
Sorting with multiple keys
Auto-numbering your result document
Handling outline-style numbering
I bet you’ve seen those commercials that promise you what you want when you need it: news at your fingertips, unmatched performance from your car, great taste, less filling. However, I don’t need a firm voice and a well-groomed toupee or a slick song culled from a little-known album to convince you that you can get what you want from XSLT.
However, to do so might involve a little “tweaking” of your stylesheets. You will find the practice of tweaking to be both useful and necessary when working with XSLT result documents. In this chapter, I look at how you can refine and fine-tune your output documents by sorting and auto-numbering the results.
Sorting Elements in the Results Tree
Until now, all the nodes in the result trees have always been in the same order in which ...
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