getting next node in sorted node list

[Hamster]

Hello,

Given a silly XML document:

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<alpha>

<letter>k</letter>

<letter>z</letter>

<letter>a</letter>

</alpha>

I have an xslt style sheet that iterates over each letter node in sorted order and prints out the letter:

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<xsl:for-each select="/alpha/letter">

        <xsl:sort />

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

</xsl:for-each>

That works fine, it just prints out a k z.

However, as the foreach is processing the letter k, I would also like it to print out the value of the next letter.

That's where I'm stuck. The following-sibling axis prints out document order, not node list order. I can use position() to get the index of the k node (in this case 2), but I have no idea how/where to use that to do (position() +1).

Can anyone help me work out how to get the next node in node list order, not document list order?

Many many thanks

H.

[adrian]

Hi,

In XSLT 2.0(needs a Saxon-HE/PE/EE transformer) it's a bit simpler. Sort it once and keep the result in a variable. Like this:

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

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">

    <xsl:template match="/">



        <xsl:variable name="sorted">

            <xsl:for-each select="/alpha/letter">

                <xsl:sort select="text()"/>

                <xsl:element name="letter">

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

                </xsl:element>

            </xsl:for-each>

        </xsl:variable>



        <xsl:for-each select="$sorted/letter">

            <xsl:text>(</xsl:text>

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

            <xsl:text>) next[</xsl:text>

            <xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::node()[1]"/>

            <xsl:text>]</xsl:text>

        </xsl:for-each>

    </xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>

In XSLT 1.0 a solution is to sort it again at each step, like this:

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

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

    <xsl:template match="/">

        <xsl:for-each select="/alpha/letter">

            <xsl:sort select="text()"/>

            <xsl:text>(</xsl:text>

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

            <xsl:text>) next[</xsl:text>

            <xsl:variable name="pos" select="position()"/>

            

            <xsl:for-each select="/alpha/letter">

                <xsl:sort select="text()"/>

                <xsl:if test="position()=$pos+1">

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

                </xsl:if>

            </xsl:for-each>

            <xsl:text>]</xsl:text>

        </xsl:for-each>

    </xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Adrian