Sort glossary in alphabetical order

[anna_craneo]

I have created ditamap for my glossterms

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE map PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Map//EN" "map.dtd">

<map id="glossary">

  <title>A Glossary of Terms used in <ph keyref="product"/></title>

  <topicmeta>

    <shortdesc>Definitions for terms used in <ph keyref="product"/></shortdesc>

    <data name="wh-menu">

      <data name="hide" value="no"/>

    </data>

  </topicmeta>

  <glossref href="../glossary/risk-score.dita" print="yes" toc="no" product="platform"

    keys="glossentry-risk-score"/>

  <glossref href="../glossary/case.dita" keys="glossentry-case" print="yes" toc="no"

    product="platform"/>

  <glossref href="../glossary/ME-group.dita" print="yes" toc="no" product="platform"

    keys="glossentry-me-group"/>

  <glossref href="../glossary/owner.dita" print="yes" toc="no" product="platform"

    keys="glossentry-owner"/>

</map>

Now I would like to sort refs in alphabetical order. I have found this post, but I do not use bookmap.

I'm not very strong in XSLT, so I would really appreciate any help.

[Radu]

Hi,

Maybe in order to use the XSLT stylesheet I proposed on that blog post you could add a <topicgroup> with a certain "id='glossarylistgroup'" attribute to surround all your topicrefs to glossary entries (this will not change how the publishing looks like).
And then in the XSLT stylesheet instead of having the XSLT template match the "glossarylist" have it match that topicgroup like:

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<xsl:template match="topicgroup[@id='glossarylistgroup']">

        <xsl:copy>

            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>

            <xsl:for-each select="*" >

                <xsl:sort select="document(@href, .)/*/glossterm/text()"/>

                <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>

            </xsl:for-each>

        </xsl:copy>

    </xsl:template>

Regards,
Radu

[Anonymous1]

I am also trying to sort glossary terms in alphabetical order in our numerous target languages.

We are using ditamaps instead of bookmaps so the initial code from the blog post obviously doesn't work.

I've added the <topicgroup> element then and used your code provided in this thread. Without success.

Is this supposed to work with our glossary term structure?

This is how our glossary term topics look like:

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<glossentry xml:lang="de-DE" id="example_g">
    <glossterm>Beispiel</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.</p>
    </glossdef>
    <prolog>
        <author>b-e-n</author>
        <critdates>
            <created date="2018-07-03"/>
            <revised modified="2019-11-08"/>
        </critdates>
    </prolog>
</glossentry>

When I apply the refactoring method you've explained it does not have any effect on the ditamap. Do I have to make a special selection or change the code somewhere?

I am using the XSL you've provided in this thread.

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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    <xsl:template match="node() | @*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="glossarylist">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
            <xsl:for-each select="*" >
                <xsl:sort select="document(@href, .)/*/glossterm/text()"/>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
            </xsl:for-each>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

[Radu]

Hi,

If the DITA Map has a structure like this:

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  <topicgroup id='glossarylistgroup'>
    <topicref href="concepts/glossaryGenus.dita"
      keys="genus" print="yes"/>
    <topicref href="concepts/glossaryPollination.dita"
      keys="pollination" print="yes"/>
  </topicgroup>

then an XSLT refactoring operation looking like this should sort it:

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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    <xsl:template match="node() | @*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="topicgroup[@id='glossarylistgroup']">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
            <xsl:for-each select="*" >
                <xsl:sort select="document(@href, .)/*/glossterm/text()"/>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
            </xsl:for-each>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Radu

[Anonymous1]

This works perfectly. Thank you!

[Anonymous1]

One addition:

The sorting was case sensitive. So the resulting order was like this:
A
B
a

Instead of:
A
a
B

I've then added <xsl:choose> to your code to add the "lang" attribute when needed. This sorts the languages as required.

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            <xsl:when test="/map/@xml:lang='de-DE'">
                <xsl:copy>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
                    <xsl:for-each select="*" >
                        <xsl:sort select="document(@href, .)/*/glossterm/text()" lang="de"/>
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
                    </xsl:for-each>
                </xsl:copy>
            </xsl:when>

This seems to work now as intended. Thanks again.

[Radu]

Hi,

Thanks, I will also try to update the code sample on the blog post to reflect your idea of taking the xml:lang into account.

Regards,
Radu

[Anonymous1]

Icing on the cake would be if I could integrate the refactoring into a transformation scenario.

To automatize the WebHelp glossary term sorting. This way the authors would not have to memorize another step before publishing.

[Radu]

Hi,

Right, handling this at publishing time would be more interesting although it may also help at editing time to have the glossentries sorted in the map.
We have an internal issue to add sorting for glossary entries in our WebHelp Responsive output, if we manage to implement it I will update this forum thread.
We already have plugin extension points which can get called when various parts of our WebHelp responsive output is built:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... mport.html

For example one of those extension points allows adding a custom XSLT stylesheet when the WebHelp table of contents is build com.oxygenxml.webhelp.xsl.createTocXML.
So doing something like this in the publishing output is not impossible, maybe you can also ask around on the DITA Users List, see if maybe others have already done this.

Regards,
Radu

[essamnagy]

We are using ditamaps instead of bookmaps so the initial code from the blog post obviously doesn't work.

[Radu]

Hi,

An update of the blog post can be found on our new Oxygen XML Blog platform hosted by Netlify:

https://oxygenxmlblog.netlify.com/topic ... tries.html

In that updated XSLT the template matches:

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 <xsl:template match="glossarylist | topicgroup[@outputclass='glossarylist']">

meaning that you can have a <topicgroup> with the outputclass='glossarylist' attribute set on it which in turn would contain inside all the topicrefs pointing to the glossentries.

Regards,
Radu