[XALANJ-2180] xsl:sort does not work with nodeset variables

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.6
• Component/s: Xalan
• Environment: Java Plug-in 1.5.0_04 creates DocumentBuilderFactory, TransformerFactory, Transformer objects etc. using newInstance() methods.
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: dcaveney
• Created: 04/Aug/05 09:15
• Updated: 20/Apr/06 01:19

Description

The symptoms I'm seeing are the same as in issue #Xalanj-860 but I can't use the same workaround. A template creates some elements within a variable, and then tries to sort the resulting nodeset. The following example produces no output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<stylesheet xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<output method="text"/>

<template match="/">
<variable name="foo">
<xsl:element name="bar">
<xsl:attribute name="priority">1</xsl:attribute>
<text>Priority = 1</text>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="bar">
<xsl:attribute name="priority">2</xsl:attribute>
<text>Priority = 2</text>
</xsl:element>
</variable>
<for-each select="xalan:nodeset($foo)/xsl:bar">
<xsl:sort data-type="number" order="descending" select="@priority"/>
<value-of select="text()"/>
</for-each>
</template>
</stylesheet>