Re: Using xsl:sort select attribute

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 00/08/25 06:16 -0400, Nuri Besen wrote:
> and I do not get any sorting to be done, have tried
>  <xsl:sort order="{$sortOrder}" select="string($sortColm)"/>
> but no good either.

I gather you are trying to select the first child element named by the 
variable?  A variable cannot be used in XPath as a step on its own, but a 
variable can be used in a predicate.

> In short I am trying to make the colm parametric.  Can I do it? If yes, how?

Have you tried select="*[name()=$sortColm]" which selects from all child 
elements the value of the first in document order whose name is the 
variable's value?

............. Ken

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