Dear Monks,

I am doing a sorting program for index. In the index, i have many section levels, in that i want to do alphabetical sorting for the text part.

The problem is, the tertiary levels 004 and 005 should be sorted separately and tertiatry levels 007,008 and 009 should be sorted separately because the above tertiary levels are present in different secondary levels.

How can i proceed and which module can be used for this, shall i use sort::Natural for this.

The following are the input and output of the index.

Input:

<indexEntry>
<primaryIE id="001">sloshing, definition </primaryIE>
<secondaryIE id="002">solitons </secondaryIE>
<secondaryIE id="003">boundary conditions, Dirichlet </secondaryIE>
<tertiaryIE id="004">Cauchy condition </tertiaryIE>
<tertiaryIE id="005">asymmetric modes </tertiaryIE>
<secondaryIE id="006">natural frequencies </secondaryIE>
<tertiaryIE id="007">boundary conditions, Neumann </tertiaryIE>
<tertiaryIE id="008">canals, circular </tertiaryIE>
<tertiaryIE id="009">baffle, annular </tertiaryIE>
<secondaryIE id="010">annular sector </secondaryIE>
<primaryIE id="011">mode shapes </primaryIE>
</indexEntry>

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Output:

<indexEntry>
<primaryIE id="001">mode shapes </primaryIE>
<secondaryIE id="002">annular sector </secondaryIE>
<secondaryIE id="003">boundary conditions, Dirichlet </secondaryIE>
<tertiaryIE id="004">asymmetric modes </tertiaryIE>
<tertiaryIE id="005">Cauchy condition </tertiaryIE>
<secondaryIE id="006">natural frequencies </secondaryIE>
<tertiaryIE id="007">baffle, annular </tertiaryIE>
<tertiaryIE id="008">boundary conditions, Neumann </tertiaryIE>
<tertiaryIE id="009">canals, circular </tertiaryIE>
<secondaryIE id="010">solitons </secondaryIE>
<primaryIE id="011">sloshing, definition </primaryIE>
</indexEntry>

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Can anyone give some suggestions, to proceed.

Thanks in advance

Prasad

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