Order intermediate results.
In a FLWOR expression, an OrderByClause sorts the
intermediate result tuples before passing them to the return
clause where the output sequence is constructed.
See FLWORExpr and SortSpecList for examples.
List book titles with their year of publication, newest first:
for $a in input()/bib/book order by $a/@year descending return ($a/@year, $a/title)
List book titles sorted according to French collation:
for $a in input()/bib/book order by $a/title ascending collation "collation?language=fr" return $a/title
Since ascending is the default order modifier, the order
by clause could also read:
order by $a/title collation "collation?language=fr"
The following construct(s) refer to this construct:
