I was trying with the examples given at http://www.yukonxml.com/articles/xquery/ by using saxon8.jar. Iam able to sort only ONE time means i can sort by COUNTRY & not by STATE & vise versa also a part of the xml code will be missed in the output.
Input XML File: countryinfo.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <World> <Country name="Pakistan"> <State name="Karachi" population="999"/> <State name="Islamabad" population="900"/> <State name="Rawalpandi" population="909"/> </Country> <Country name="India"> <State name="Bangalore" population="100"/> <State name="AP" population="200"/> <State name="Madras" population="300"/> <State name="Delhi" population="600"/> </Country> </World> Query to sort by Country: Query: for $country in doc("countryinfo.xml")/World/Country order by $country/@name ascending return $country OutPut: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Country name="India"> <State name="Bangalore" population="100"/> <State name="AP" population="200"/> <State name="Madras" population="300"/> <State name="Delhi" population="600"/> </Country> <Country name="Pakistan"> <State name="Karachi" population="999"/> <State name="Islamabad" population="900"/> <State name="Rawalpandi" population="909"/> </Country> Query to sort by State: Query: for $country in doc("countryinfo.xml")/World/Country/State order by $country/@name ascending return $country OutPut: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <State name="AP" population="200"/> <State name="Bangalore" population="100"/> <State name="Delhi" population="600"/> <State name="Islamabad" population="900"/> <State name="Karachi" population="999"/> <State name="Madras" population="300"/> <State name="Rawalpandi" population="909"/> Java Program: import net.sf.saxon.Query; public class SortXMLData { public static void main(String[] args) { Query query = new Query(); String arg[] = {"C:/countryinfo.xq"}; // contains query try{ query.main(arg); } catch(Exception ex){ System.out.println("Exception: "+ex); } } } - Khan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/sorting-xml-data-in-alphabetical-order-tp19920246p21027601.html Sent from the Xml Beans - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xmlbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xmlbeans.apache.org