Problem sorting RSS feed by date using XSL
- by Buckers
I'm creating a website where I need to show the top 5 records from an RSS feed, and these need to be sorted by date and time.
The date fields in the RSS feed are in the following format:
"Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:02:44 GMT"
I'm having big problems getting the records to sort correctly - I've tried lots of different code examples I've seen, but none seem to sort the records correctly. The code for my XSL sheet is shown below, and the feed in question is
here.
Very grateful for anyones help!!!
Thanks,
Chris.
XSL CODE:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:digg="http://digg.com//docs/diggrss/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="//*[local-name()='item'][position() < 6]">
<p>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='link']"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="target">
<xsl:text>top</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='title']"/>
</a>
<br/>
<span class="smaller"><xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='pubDate']" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></span>
</p>
</xsl:for-each>
