RE: Dynamic Sorting - Using a variable to determine th

The following was posted by Jeremy Byron and Steve Klein on the xslTalk
discussion list to answer your question:

<xsl:sort select="*[name()=$sort_by]" data-type="{$sort_type}"
order="{$sort_dir}" />

For the record, the *[name()=$sort_by] is a XPath query expression.
  It means, roughly, select all child nodes of the current node (the *),
  limiting them by (the [...] part) where the name of the node is equal
  to the value provided (the name()=$sort_by).

Cheers,
Trace
http://www.vbxml.com


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