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## Name

sort — Metaproxy Z39.50 Sort Module

## DESCRIPTION

This filter performs sorting of Z39.50 result sets. The sorting criteria is selected via an X-Path expression. Only XML records are supported. The sorting is done only for the first present request following a search. The number of records to prefetch is configurable. For example, if a client asks initially for 10 records this module may extend that, and fetch more records and only return the results in the 10 record window - after sorting.

The configuration is given as attribute inside element `sort`. This element must occur exactly once. Future versions of the sort module may include multiple sort elements. The attributes within sort are:

xpath

  Specifies the X-Path expression that picks the sorting data from the record.

namespaces

  Allows one or more namespaces to be declared with a user-defined prefix. Each prefix may be referred to within the xpath expression.

prefetch

  Number of records to prefetch.

ascending

  Is a boolean value (false, true). If true, the sort module will sort ascending. If false, the sort module will sort descending. If omitted, the sort order will be ascending.

## SCHEMA

# Metaproxy XML config file schemas
#
# Copyright (C) Index Data
# See the LICENSE file for details.
namespace mp = "http://indexdata.com/metaproxy"
filter_sort =
attribute type { "sort" },
attribute id { xsd:NCName }?,
attribute name { xsd:NCName }?,
element mp:sort {
attribute prefetch { xsd:integer }?,
attribute xpath { xsd:string },
attribute namespaces { xsd:string }?,
attribute ascending { xsd:boolean }?,
attribute debug { xsd:boolean }?
}

## EXAMPLES

For example, to sort MARCXML records on title, one could use:

    <filter type="sort">
      <sort
        xpath="/marc:record/marc:datafield[@tag='245']/marc:subfield[@code='a']"
        namespaces="marc=http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"
        prefetch="5"
        ascending="true"
        debug="true"
       />
    </filter>

## SEE ALSO

metaproxy(1)

record_transform(3mp)

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2005-2026 Index Data

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