Thanks to both you and Christian!Yes to the adding metadata, it would be cleaner and enable me to avoid more advance XQuery aspects at this point in the introduction.
Hope you are looking forward to a great weekend! Patrick On 5/4/22 17:07, Graydon wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 04:29:04PM -0400, Patrick Durusau scripsit:You know, the files don't have internal sort attributes. ntorder = "digit" would be enough to sort on that attribute and return the book names in the expected order. I'm sure there are better solutions, suggestions appreciated!In principle, it's preferable to put in the metadata in the content as semantically meaningful things; perhaps <sort-title>matthew</sort-title> for this use case. If there's no naturally occuring ordering in the semantically meaningful thing, you can write an ordering function or just map sort titles to something that has the ordering you want. let $sequenceMap as map(xs:string,xs:integer) := map { 'matthew': 10, 'mark': 20, 'luke':30, 'john': 40 } lets you do something like order by $sequenceMap(sort-title) $sequenceMap ought to be declare variable $namespace:sequenceMap as map(xs:string,xs:integer) := map { 'matthew': 10, 'mark': 20, 'luke':30, 'john': 40 } in the function module if you're doing this for real; some single place to have the ordering. If you're going to sort differently for different languages, it turns into a map of per-language $sequenceMap style maps. order by $sequenceMap(@xml:lang)(sort-title) It keeps the ordering in one place, you can adjust it independently of the content, and the "we sort on this" label in the content can have some human meaning. You can also add a wrapper layer outside language if you want to support variation about which books and what order for different use cases: order by $sequenceMap($heretics)(@xml:lang)(sort-title)
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