RE: XSLT eval()

[John Lam <jlam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> <xsl:sort select="*[name()=$COLUMN]"/>

Thanks for passing this one along. It's been bugging me for a *long* time!

> The Saxon syntax is
>
> <xsl:param name="COLUMN" select="'name'"/>
> ...
> <xsl:for-each select="item">
>   <xsl:sort select="saxon:evaluate( $COLUMN )"/>

Awesome! I think that I'm going to have to switch over to SAXON.

Do you know if any of the other XSLT processor writing folks (Boag, Clark)
are considering adding something like evaluate() to their processors?

Thanks
-John


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