Re: Sorting XML Nodes

Thanks, Daniel. That is exactly what I ended up doing.

- Kirill


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think it's fair to blame `?sort_by` for this. And as always when
> there's no proper built-in for something that is not feasible to
> implement as an FTL #function, you should write a
> TemplateMethodModelEx for this in Java, pull it into an
> #import-ed/#included template with `?new` (or just put it into
> Configuration as shared variable), and then call it from the
> templates.
>
>
> Monday, September 19, 2011, 7:52:02 PM, Kirill wrote:
>
> > Hey there,
> >
> > I need to sort the XML tree based on one of its' nodes.
> > Let's say I have the following XML tree:
> >
> > <root>
> > <item id=1/>
> > <item id=2/>
> > <item id=3/>
> > <item id=10/>
> > <item id=11/>
> > </root>
> >
> > I've read that freemarker's sort_by built-in is pretty limited,
> > i.e. you cannot force the conversion of the sortable to number, for
> > example (so you can't do ?sort_by(["var1", "var2?number"])).
> > Now, when I do ?sort_by(["item","id"]), the result I get is this, of
> course:
> >
> > <root>
> > <item id=1/>
> > <item id=10/>
> > <item id=11/>
> > <item id=2/>
> > <item id=3/>
> > </root>
> >
> > My question is this - how can I emulate the natural sort order of
> > the list, by modifying id variables in the original XML?
> > I have full control of the original XML and can modify any values (add
> string/digits, etc)?
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks much,
> > Kirill
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Daniel Dekany
>
>

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