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At 99/11/18 18:58 +0200, Marcus.Bernhardson@n... wrote: >Im new to this list (and pretty new to XML/XSL...) and i hope that its ok to >ask a question about XSL here. Please tell me if Im at the wrong place. A better place is: XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list >I have a very anoying problem i cant solve using XSL with IE5. >... >When I sort with order-by I wanna use a variable or a function that returns >the sortingcriteria. I cant get it to work, is it possible? Such a criterion is available using W3C XSLT, not IE5 XSL ... with W3C XSLT you can specify a sort key based on a function. >What I mean is that I wanna do something like this: > >* with a variable called selectedSort that contains the string >'childelement1', 'childelement2' or 'childelement3': ><xsl:for-each select="root/element" order-by="+selectedSort"> Oh. I'm not really sure what you are asking for, then. >* with a function that returns the string 'childelement1', 'childelement2' >or 'childelement3': ><xsl:for-each select="root/element" order-by="+selectedSort()"> > >If this would work then i could use 1 XSL-file instead of 1 for every >sorting/filtering combination (would be many....). Have you examined using general entities (but may not work in IE5) to parameterize the encoding of attributes and sub-elements? >When i filter i do like this: > <xsl:for-each select="root/element[childelement= 'criteria1']" >order-by="+childelement1"> > >I have same problem here. I wanna be able to do something like this: > ><xsl:for-each select="root/element[childelement1= selectedCriteria]" >order-by="+childelement1"> >or ><xsl:for-each select="root/element[childelement1= selectedCriteria()]" >order-by="+childelement1"> Same answer from me ... such parameterization as I *think* you've described isn't possible in XSLT. But, I think if you were to parameterize the *stylesheet markup* instead of trying to parameterize *stylesheet behaviour*, you will get what you are looking for. Also, I expect you want to do "//element[..." to choose from all elements with the given predicate (which is not quite what you are asking for). I hope this helps. ................... Ken -- G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@C... Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (Fax:-0995) Web site: XSL/XML/DSSSL/SGML services, training, libraries, products. Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-02-0 Next instructor-led training: 1999-12-05/06, 1999-12-07, - 2000-02-27/28, 2000-05-11/12, 2000-05-15 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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