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Re: Strange Sorting Problem

• To: CBeach@b...
• Subject: Re: Strange Sorting Problem
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:42:23 GMT
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <OF72902CDA.BB61E6E4-ON80256DF1.00420663@b...>(CBeach@b...)
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This would be better asked on xsl-list (where it's a faq)
(see http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list )



                  <xsl:sort select='$sorted_field' order='ascending'/>

xsl variables do not contain expressions, but values, so the above sort
expression is using a fixed sort key value for all items, so no sorting
takes place.

You probably want to select an element with name given by the variable,
which is

                  <xsl:sort select='*[name()=$sorted_field]'
                  order='ascending'/>

David

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