Re: [xsl] Dynamic Sorting

["Michael H. Semcheski" <mhs-list@xxxxxxxxx>]

> In reality we are not going to hard code the variable values like this,
> but rather pull them in from another document by way of the document()
> function, but that's not important right now.
>
> The problem is, later on in the XSL we can't have <xsl:sort
> select="{$sort-by-element-1}" /> since xsl:sort's select attribute
> doesn't accept attribute value templates.  You can specify attribute
> value templates for xsl:sort's other attributes, for instance the
> article at
> http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200012/msg00392.html
> demonstrates how to dynamically specify a descending or ascending sort
> order.  However you can't do this for the select attribute.  Short of
> creating nonportable XSL by using saxon:evaluate() or xalan:evaluate() I
> can't see a way around this.  Any suggestions?  Can this kind of dynamic
> sorting be done at all?
>  

Rather than pull in the values from an external document, why not create 
a stylesheet (a) that takes that external document (b) and transforms it 
into the stylesheet as you have it (c), with the xsl:sort attributes set 
up as defined in document (b)?



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