Subject: RE: sort From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:43:32 +0100 |
> I am passing a parameter using > processor.setStylesheetParam("S", "'name'"); > > Now in my style sheet I can access the parameter like this > <xsl:value-of select="$S"> > but if I try to use this > > <xsl:sort select="$S"> .. it doesn't work > I think it does work. The value of $S is the literal value 'name', so the sort key for each member of the set is 'name', and when all members of the set have the same sort key they are processed in document order. I suspect what you want to do is to sort by the value of the child element whose name is given in $S. Subject to small print involving namespaces, you can do this as <xsl:sort select="*[name()=$S]"/> This is a FAQ. Note that the solution isn't general, for example it wouldn't allow you to pass "@code" or "price * quantity" as the value of the sort key. For a general solution, look at the Saxon extension function saxon:evaluate(). Another solution is to modify the stylesheet before execution: there's an example in my book of how to do this with MSXML3. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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