XSLT: Getting the latest date
Figured it out, wasn't as hard as I thought it will be:
<xsl:variable name="latest">
<xsl:for-each select="Info">
<xsl:sort select="Date" order="descending" />
<xsl:if test="position() = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="Date"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="$latest"/>
In XSLT 2.0 or later, you shouldn't need to sort at all; you can use max()
...
<xsl:value-of select="max(//Date/xs:date(.))"/>
XSLT 2.0+: <xsl:perform-sort>
is used when we want to sort elements without processing the elements individually. <xsl:sort>
is used to process elements in sorted order. Since you just want the last date in this case, you do not need to process each <Info>
element. Use <xsl:perform-sort>
:
<xsl:variable name="sorted_dates">
<xsl:perform-sort select="Info/Date">
<xsl:sort select="."/>
</xsl:perform-sort>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="$sorted_dates/Date[last()]"/>