Re: [xsl] XSL/XPath Dynamic sort key

["Fett Boba" <stucco_junk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

And my final line of code supports up to three dynamic sub levels with the 
final reference being an element or attribute.

<xsl:sort 
select="*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_3]/*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_2]/*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_1]/@*[name()=$sort_select]|*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_3]/*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_2]/*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_1]/*[name()=$sort_select]|*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_2]/*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_1]/@*[name()=$sort_select]|*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_2]/*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_1]/*[name()=$sort_select]|*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_1]/@*[name()=$sort_select]|*[name()=$sort_select_lvl_1]/*[name()=$sort_select]|*[name()=$sort_select]" 
data-type="{$sort_data_type}" order="{$sort_order}" />

and believe it or not it actually works.  I wish there was a better way but 
I'll just not worry about it.  The reason I can't use saxon, even though I 
would really like to, is I need it web enabed.  (I am assuming here that 
using saxon limits you to the local command line, which I'm sure is 
completely wrong)

> <xsl:sort select="*[name()=$sort_select]|author/*[name()=$sort_select]"
> data-type="{$sort_data_type}" order="{$sort_order}" />
>
> and just set the sort_select param to be 'uid' or 'last_name' or whatever
> you want. In each case one branch of the | will return nothing, but
> that's OK.

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