RE: [xsl] Re: <xsl:sort select=borrower order=descending/> question

["dmitrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dmitrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is this what you are referring to?
There is an html drop down list with vbscript which allows columns 
in the table to be selected, and then a dropdown with ascending or 
descending. How can these values be passed to these
variables?
<xsl:sort order="{$order}" select="*[name()=$sortColumn]"/>

tia,
dk

dynamically set the sort order
 
 Dimitre Novatchev 

> I am trying to dynamically set sort order and sort column in my 
> XSLT. It seems that I can not use an expression for "order".
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="Uow">
>   <xsl:sort select="$sortColumn" order="$sortOrder"/>
>   <xsl:with-param name="from" select="$startRow"/>
>   <xsl:with-param name="to" select="$endRow"/>
> </xsl:apply-templates>

All attributes of xsl:sort with the exception of "select" can be specified
as AVT-s.

The "select" attribute can be any XPath expression. Certainly, an attempt
to put an XPath expression in a variable and pass this variable as the
(complete) value of the "select: attribute -- this will fail for xsl: sort
as in any such attempt in XSLT, because XPath expressions are not evaluated
dynamically.

However, if you need to specify the name of a child element, then you can
use an expression like this:

*[name()=$sortColumn]
Therefore, one possible way to achieve your wanted results is:

<xsl:sort order="{$order}" select="*[name()=$sortColumn]"/>
 


Original Message:
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From: Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:06:20 +0200
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] Re: <xsl:sort select="borrower" order="descending"/> question


http://dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N6461.html#d6859e950


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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL


<dmitrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> is there a way to pass a variable into the select
>  <xsl:sort select="borrower" order="descending"/>
>
> so that different values can be sorted in the xml?
>
>  <xsl:for-each select="trades/trade">
>        <xsl:sort select="borrower" order="descending"/>
>
> tia,
> dk
>
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