Spry wont sort alphabetically with CDATA used in XML

Question

the sorting problem I don't know how to fix is when one of
the items in my xml has a link through the use of CDATA as in
<award><![CDATA[<a
href="../awards/LucatoPeacePrize08.swf" target="_blank">Lucato
Peace Prize</a>]]></award> with this in my xml this
particular entry is at the top of the sorted list, which,
logically, is correct. But I want it to appear down the list before
the M's and after the L's.
Can anyone shed light on how to fix this?

Answer 1

You're going to have to create a custom column that has just
the text between the <a> and </a> tags, and then you
can use that custom column when sorting. Something like this:
function PreFilterColumns(ds, row, rowIndex)
// Get the value in the award column for this row and
// strip out both the <a> and </a> tags. Stick
the result
// in a column called "awardName".
row.awardName = row.award.replace(/<\/?a[^>]*>/g,
return row;
var ds1 = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("foo.php", "/rows/row", {
filterDataFunc: PreFilterColumns });
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