[xquery-talk] sorting problem

[Rademacher, Gunther]

It can be done using tokenize() and matches() by directly translating your requirements into a list of ordering specifications:

    for $string in
    (
      "11 Aug. 2°",
      "10 Aug. 4°",
      "3.1.1 Aug. 2°",
      "A Aug. 2°",
      "1 Weiss."
    )
    order by
      tokenize($string, " ")[2],
      tokenize($string, " ")[3],
      matches($string, "^[A-Za-z]") descending,
      number(tokenize($string, "[. ]")[1])
    return $string




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From: talk-bounces at x-query.com [mailto:talk-bounces at x-query.com] On Behalf Of Torsten Schassan
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 15:58
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Subject: [xquery-talk] sorting problem

Hi


considered strings like these:

11 Aug. 2°
10 Aug. 4°
3.1.1 Aug. 2°
A Aug. 2°
1 Weiss.


How would I sort them using XQuery according to this succession

- letters in the middle first (Aug etc)
- the sizes (2° etc)
- "front" letters before numbers
- numbers according to their position before the dots


Sorting result for the examples above would then be:

A Aug. 2°
3.1.1 Aug. 2°
11 Aug. 2°
10 Aug. 4°
1 Weiss.



Would that be done best with tokenize() or matches()?