multiple sorting

["Caras, Yuko" <Yuko_Caras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'd followed the discussion about multiple sorting a while ago.  I'm having
a very similar situations but would like to add more functions.  In addition
to sort multiple times in client side, I would like to define different
data-type for different elements and assign either ascending or descending.
Is this possible?  What I did was adding <xsl:choose>, but this didn't work.
Am I doing wrong or is there any way to do it?  What I want to do is if
data-type is text, sort ascending and if data-type is number, sort
descending.

Thank you very much for any help.

Yuko




XML file --------

<result>
  <data>
    <row count="1">
      <name>Bob</name>
      <score>80</score>
      <time>120</time>
      <lead>Mike</lead>
    </row>
    <row count="2">
         .................
    </row>
  </data>
</result>

XSL is --------

I set a parameter, like Bryce did...

<xsl:param name="item" select="'name'"/>

and in a html table output,

    <xsl:for-each select="row">
    <xsl:sort select="./*[name() = $item]"/>
	
 <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$item='score'">
	  <xsl:for-each select="score">
	  <xsl:sort order="descending" data-type="number" select="."/>
	  </xsl:for-each>
	</xsl:when>  
    <xsl:when test="$item='time'">
	  <xsl:for-each select="time">
	  <xsl:sort order="descending" data-type="number" select="."/>
	  </xsl:for-each>
	</xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
	  <xsl:for-each select="row">
	  <xsl:sort order="descending" select="."/>
	  </xsl:for-each>
	</xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>	
  
           <tr>
	  <xsl:for-each select="name">
	    <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
	  </xsl:for-each>
	  <xsl:for-each select="score">
	    <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
	  </xsl:for-each>
	  <xsl:for-each select="time">
	    <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
	  </xsl:for-each>
	  <xsl:for-each select="lead">
	    <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
	  </xsl:for-each>	  
	</tr>
    </xsl:for-each>  


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