8398 2009-11-29 14:10:29 +0000 [XSLT 2.0] order in result of grouping example is wrong 2010-07-15 09:35:38 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XSLT 2.0 Recommendation PC Windows XP CLOSED FIXED http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#grouping-examples P2 normal --- 1 martin.honnen mike public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 29780 0 martin.honnen 2009-11-29 14:10:29 +0000 The example "Grouping Nodes based on Common Values" in http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#grouping-examples shows the following result: <table> <tr> <th>Position</th> <th>Country</th> <th>List of Cities</th> <th>Population</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>Italia</td> <td>Milano, Venezia</td> <td>6</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td>France</td> <td>Lyon, Paris</td> <td>9</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td>Deutschland</td> <td>München</td> <td>4</td> </tr> </table> I think the order in the third cell (List of Cities) in the third row (key France) is wrong, it should be "Paris, Lyon", not "Lyon, Paris", as in the input <city name="Milano" country="Italia" pop="5"/> <city name="Paris" country="France" pop="7"/> <city name="München" country="Deutschland" pop="4"/> <city name="Lyon" country="France" pop="2"/> <city name="Venezia" country="Italia" pop="1"/> city name="Paris" precedes city name="Lyon". 29790 1 mike 2009-11-30 11:14:07 +0000 I think one could defend the example on the grounds that the stated requirement is for the output to be "unsorted", i.e. the user does not care what the result order is, and the provided code meets this requirement. However I agree it would be clearer if the published code delivered the published output as shown. 29804 2 martin.honnen 2009-11-30 17:57:34 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > I think one could defend the example on the grounds that the stated requirement > is for the output to be "unsorted", i.e. the user does not care what the result > order is, and the provided code meets this requirement. However I agree it > would be clearer if the published code delivered the published output as shown. When I filed this "bug" I had focused on the sample input, output, and XSLT code in the specification. Based on your comment I reread the text accompanying the example again and see that it says "The four columns are to contain [...] third, a comma-separated alphabetical list of the city names within that country". That means the order "Lyon, Paris" is what the textual description specifies, an alphabetical list. Only in that case the XSLT sample does not achieve what the textual description requires, as it outputs "Paris, Lyon". So somehow the textual description, the sample output and the sample XSLT code need to be aligned. 35855 3 mike 2010-05-27 16:39:36 +0000 Decided to fix this by adding the required xsl:sort element to the XSLT solution of the example. 36896 4 mike 2010-07-15 09:35:38 +0000 This will be erratum E47. I am closing the bug anticipating that this resolution is acceptable.