Re: passing a parameter to select attribute of <xsl:sort>

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan and Nick,

Well, you could try the old hack:

  <xsl:apply-templates select="./listItem">
    <xsl:sort order="{$order}" select="*[local-name()=$orderingElement]"/>
  </xsl:apply-templates>

Nick's explanation is essentially correct (except the select attribute
doesn't take a pattern, it takes a string evaluated as an expression, not
quite the same thing). This solution (warning:untested) would get around it
by constructing such an expression that tests element names, as strings,
against the variable (rather than assuming the variable can be used to
select a node set relative to the context node, which it can't).

Hope this helps,
Wendell

At 10:06 PM 6/21/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Ryan, as I understand from the XSLT spec and Mike Kays book (p 119) you
cannot do all
>that you want to in one go. The select attribute cannot use an attribute
value template
>though the order attribute can. The reason being that select requires an
XPath pattern.
>I guess the way round this is with a choose/when/when/.../otherwise
construct with each
>of the possible sort conditions explicitly stated.
>
>Or is there another way ?
>
>Regards
>
>Nick Browne
>Slipstone Ltd
>
>
>Ryan Daigle wrote:
>
>>         I am trying to pass a parameter into a sort element through another
>> template as follows:
>> ...
>>         <xsl:apply-templates select="./listItem">
>>                 <xsl:sort order="{$order}" select="$orderingElement"/>
>>         </xsl:apply-templates>
>> </xsl:template>


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