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Subject: Re: Using xsl:sort select attribute
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 09:25:48 -0400

At 00/08/25 06:16 -0400, Nuri Besen wrote:

and I do not get any sorting to be done, have tried
 <xsl:sort order="{$sortOrder}" select="string($sortColm)"/>
but no good either.

I gather you are trying to select the first child element named by the variable? A variable cannot be used in XPath as a step on its own, but a variable can be used in a predicate.

In short I am trying to make the colm parametric. Can I do it? If yes, how?

Have you tried select="*[name()=$sortColm]" which selects from all child elements the value of the first in document order whose name is the variable's value?

............. Ken

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