docbook: transformations: alphabetizing bibliographies
Subject:
Re: transformations: alphabetizing bibliographies
From:
"John R. Daily" ####@####.####
Date:
8 Dec 2003 21:35:06 -0000
Message-Id: <200312082135.hB8LZ4Bs012071@ms-smtp-03-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com>
At (time_t)759481298 Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> I know virtually nothing about manipulating XML documents; however, I'm
> wondering how hard it would be to have a customized XSLT (?) that sorted
> the bibliography in one of my documents so that it was alphabetically
> correct.
xsl:sort is probably what you want, but I'd have to do some
experimentation as time permits to figure out how best to leverage
it.
What do you want to sort by? Will words like "The" be pushed to
the back of the title (assuming you want to sort by title)?
-John
