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Search manual

- Main page
- Introduction
- Hello, world!
- Basics
  - How to write the layout
  - Structure of the data file and the layout rules
  - Outputting objects
  - Grid
  - Areas on the page (PositioningArea)
  - File organization
  - Hyphenation / language settings
  - Using fonts
  - Text formats
  - Text formatting
  - Colors
- Programming
- Image inclusion
- Tables
- Advanced topics
  - Bookmarks
  - Creation of XML structures
  - Print output / crop marks
  - Using CSS with the speedata Publisher
  - Groups (virtual objects)
  - Virtual pages
  - Rotation of contents
  - Sorting data
  - Wrap around images
  - Page types
  - Starting the Publisher via the Hotfolder
  - Lua-Filter / pre-processing
  - Schema validation
  - Quality assurance and PDF comparison
  - Troubleshooting / Debugging
  - Server mode (REST API)
  - Control of the layout when calling the Publisher
- Cookbook
  - Thumb index
  - Embed multipage PDF files
  - Layout optimization using groups
  - Imitate bulleted lists
  - Automatically generated directories
  - Create table of contents in one go
  - Page numbers: Page x of y
- Installation instructions
- File name in the Publisher
- speedata Publisher defaults
- Running the speedata publisher on the command line
- How to configure the speedata publisher
- Lenghts and units
- XPath- and Layoutfunctions
- Internal variables
- Associate XML editor with schema
  - Visual Studio Code
  - OxygenXML
  - Atom
- Changelog
- Glossary
- Command reference
  - A
  - Action
  - AddSearchpath
  - AtPageCreation
  - AtPageShipout
  - AttachFile
  - Attribute
  - B
  - Barcode
  - Bold
  - BoldItalic
  - Bookmark
  - Box
  - Br
  - Case
  - Circle
  - Color
  - Column
  - Columns
  - Compatibility
  - Contents
  - Copy-of
  - DefineColor
  - DefineColorprofile
  - DefineFontalias
  - DefineFontfamily
  - DefineTextformat
  - Element
  - Fallback
  - Fontface
  - ForAll
  - Frame
  - Grid
  - Group
  - Groupcontents
  - HSpace
  - Hyphenation
  - I
  - Image
  - Include
  - Initial
  - InsertPages
  - Italic
  - Layout
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  - LoadDataset
  - LoadFontfile
  - Loop
  - Makeindex
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  - NewPage
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  - NoBreak
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  - Text
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# Sorting data

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The speedata Publisher offers an easy way to sort data. If this method is not sufficient, the sorting must be performed by an external program such as XSLT.

Assuming that the data file (data.xml) looks like this:

    <data>
      <item value="one"/>
      <item value="two"/>
      <item value="three"/>
    </data>

Can now be sorted with `<SortSequence>`. The original data is not changed.

    <Layout
      xmlns="urn:speedata.de:2009/publisher/en"
      xmlns:sd="urn:speedata:2009/publisher/functions/en">

      <Record element="data">
        <SetVariable variable="unsorted" select="*"/>
        <SetVariable variable="sorted">
          <SortSequence select="$unsorted" criterion="value"/>
        </SetVariable>
        <PlaceObject>
          <Textblock>
            <ForAll select="$sorted">
              <Paragraph><Value select="@value"/></Paragraph>
            </ForAll>
          </Textblock>
        </PlaceObject>
      </Record>
    </Layout>

In addition to the command `<SortSequence>` there is also the possibility to sort and group by `<MakeIndex>`. This command is described in the chapter Sorting of keyword indexes.

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