XML problem

[bieltan]

Im relitivly new to the XML and have been self teaching. I've heard that you can sort xml records by an 'onclick' method. What im looking to do is a simple sort by pressing a button on a page and have the records sorted. Sorted as in if i have Records X, X, Y, Z. I press button "Sort X" only X and X will be show in my HTML Table.

Any good resources to find an example of this to learn from?

 

[mike314]

you can use a for each loop to loop through the data set and then sort the result.


heres how to sort
<xsl:sort select="your data here" data-type="number"/>

some javascript might help. you could use a function inside the href which calls a for-each loop that sorts

hope this helps

 

[JontyMC]

I think you're a bit confused here. XML is just a structured data storage format. 'Onclick' is an HTML attribute that will call a javascript function.

Are you using XML at the moment or do you just have an HTML page?

The usual way to use XML for HTML is:

XML > XSL > HTML

Then any client-side interaction is normally done with javascript. You could use a server-side language (or indeed javascript) to pass a parameter to the XSL stylesheet that would filter the sort, but you best choice would probably be javascript.

Jon

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