RE: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML

["Claudio Russo" <crusso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

I have the code that follows. 
In my machine I have IE 6.0, and MSXML 4.0. 

1) Does the code that shows will not be able to be executed by, let say, Netscape or any other browser? 
2) Does for instance a user of IE 6.0 be able to view the results and one of IE 4.0 not?
3) Which is the best approach to develop in a neutral environment that be accesible for everyone (or at least 90% of the www users, not an enterprise environment, where will be easy to install all the set up required)?
4) Why do we talk of different engines like Saxon, MS, etc.? 

Claudio.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhk@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Lunes, 30 de Junio de 2003 02:57 p.m.
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl:sort in old MSXML


> 
> I'm trying to use the XML support in the MSXML version 
> distributed with IE5.0 (which MSXML version is it by the way, 
> I'm guessing 2.0 or 2.5). 
> 
> So, I'm trying to use xsl:sort but the script engine tells me 
> that I cannot use the keyword xsl:sort where I use it.
> 
> Tried the following approaches:
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//question">
>   <xsl:sort select="@id" order="ascending" 
> data-type="number"/> </xsl:apply-templates>
> 
> and
> <xsl:for-each select="//question">
>     <xsl:sort select="@id" order="ascending" 
> data-type="number"/> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> None of these seems to work.
> Exact error message is: Keyword xsl:sort may not be used here.
> 
> The same things happens when I try to use xsl:param and 
> xsl:variable as well.
> 
> BTW, the namespace declaration in my stylesheet is: 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what to do?
> 

It's a long while since we've seen this, it used to come up twice a day.

WD-xsl is not XSLT. You can't get a C compiler to process Java, and you
can't get a WD-xsl processor to process XSLT. They are different
languages. If you want to write XSLT, you will need an XSLT processor.

Michael Kay


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