How about something like this, then?
<xsl:variable name="m" select="/all/message"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$m[position()<6">
<xsl:sort select="."/>
<!-- sample output here -->
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
Or you might want to look at:
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N6461.html#d6361e489
Really you should ask this kind of question on the mulberrytech xsl list;
you'll get more response! :-)
Con
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcel Jurk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, 15 December 2002 18:52
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: RE: xsl:copy-of Problem
>
>
> Hi Con,
>
> thanks for the hint with the RTF. But my problem is,
> that I want first sort the elements and afterwards I
> want output only the first five elements.
> With your example
> <xsl:variable name="m" select="/all/message"/>
> is no sorting possible.
>
> Regards,
> Marcel
>
> Marcel your variable $m holds a Result Tree
> > Fragment, not a NodeSet. A RTF
> > is not as useful as a nodeset. In particular you
> > can't use "for-each" with
> > it.
> >
> > See
> >
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Result-Tree-Fragments
> >
> >
> > Try assigning the variable like this:
> > <xsl:variable name="m" select="/all/message"/>
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Con
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Marcel Jurk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2002 07:16
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: RE: RE: xsl:copy-of Problem
> > >
> > >
> > > Sorry I forgott the following lines in the
> > stylesheet.
> > >
> > > <xsl:template match="/">
> > > <xsl:variable name="m">
> > > <xsl:call-template name="sortmsg"/>
> > > </xsl:variable>
> > > <xsl:for-each select="$m">
> > > <xsl:value-of select="name(.)/> <!-- No output
> > -->
> > > <xsl:value-of select="."/> <!-- Output:
> > msg1msg2
> > > -->
> > > </xsl:for-each>
> > > </xsl:template>
> > >
> > > <xsl:template name="sortmsg">
> > > <xsl:for-each select="/all/message">
> > > <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> > > </xsl:for-each>
> > > </xsl:template>
> > >
> > > In the <xsl:for-each> loop must be the output two
> > > times message, but I got no output and the loop is
> > > pass only once.
> > > I think that not the tree is copied with the
> > > <xsl:copy-of> in the template sortmsg, but only
> > the
> > > values.
> > >
> > > Before the currently c2.1 (cvs 12.12) version, I
> > used
> > > c2.1 (cvs 30.10) and with it works fine, but now
> > not.
> > >
> > > Marcel
> >
> >
> >
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