dynamic sorting

Hello all,

I'm breaking my head on some problem, and I hope you can help me with it.

Imagine the following part of an xml file:

<person>
	<fname>Jup</fname>
	<lname>Nope</lname>
	<bday>Also</bday>
	...
</person

The following works perfect:

<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:apply-templates select="person">
		<xsl:sort select="person/fname"/
	</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

But when I put the string "person" into a parameter named "sort", it doesn't
work anymore:

<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:param name="sort">person</xsl:param>
	<xsl:apply-templates select="$sort">
		<xsl:sort select="person/fname"/
	</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

My goal is that the user of my xsl file can give a parameter "sort" (to his
xslt parser) which defines his preferred way of sorting.

Any ideas what is wrong?

Thanks a lot,

--
Peter


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