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Asked: 2026-05-22T03:22:56+00:00

I need to arrange the nodes in XHTML in particular predefined order using XSL,

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I need to arrange the nodes in XHTML in particular predefined order using XSL, retaining all the other transformation within the nodes. The input file is:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
  <head> 
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> 
  </head> 

  <body class="hresume">

    <div id="sec 1">
      <div>
    text 1
    <span class="summary">position 1</span>
      </div>
    </div>

    <div id="sec 2">
      <div>
    text 2
    <span class="summary">position 2</span>
      </div>
    </div>

  </body> 
</html>

the XML transformation:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xsl:stylesheet
   version="1.0"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<!-- the identity template -->
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<!-- remove summary -->
<xsl:template match="xhtml:span[@class='summary']"/>

<!-- arrange nodes -->
<do-something match="id('sec 2')"/>
<do-something match="id('sec 1')"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The expected result is just swapping “sec 1” and “sec 2” nodes and removing “summary” positions. What should be used instead of do-something?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This transformation:

    <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 >
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
     <xsl:copy>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
     </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match=
  "*[x:div[@id='sec 1'] and x:div[@id='sec 2']]">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>

   <xsl:variable name="vDivs" select="x:div"/>

   <xsl:apply-templates select="$vDivs[2]"/>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="$vDivs[1]"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="x:span[@class='summary']"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

    when applied on the provided XML document:

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
    </head>
    <body class="hresume">
        <div id="sec 1">
            <div>     text 1     
                <span class="summary">position 1</span>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div id="sec 2">
            <div>     text 2     
                <span class="summary">position 2</span>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

    produces exactly the wanted, correct result:

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
   <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
   </head>
   <body class="hresume">
      <div id="sec 2">
         <div>     text 2     
        </div>
      </div>
      <div id="sec 1">
         <div>     text 1     
        </div>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

    Do note:

    1. The wanted special effect is achieved by having two separate <xsl:apply-templates> instructions specified in the desired order.

    2. The wanted switching of places between the two div elements is achieved even if the second one were preceding the first one — in the result always the one that was second (of the two) in document order is now first (of the two) in document order.

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