RE: Using xsl:sort causes transformer to fail

1. What do you mean when you say it "fails" or "doesn't work"? What are the
symptoms?

2. What does the source XML look like?

3. It looks a very strange sort key, what are you trying to achieve?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sola Awe [mailto:sodana@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 20 January 2007 15:29
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Using xsl:sort causes transformer to fail
> 
> Hi,
>   I have an xsl:sort expression that doesn't always work all 
> the time.  Not sure why.  Here is a segment of my code:
> 
> ------------------------
> xsl:for-each select="$group/ITEM">
>   <xsl:sort 
> select="*[name()=$group/ITEM/*[name()=$rowKey]]/@*[name() = 
> $sortBy]" order="{$sortOrder}" data-type="number"/>
> 
>   <xsl:if test="*[name()=$group/ITEM/*[name()=$rowKey]]">
>     <xsl:call-template name="processItem">
> 	<xsl:with-param name="columnNode"	select="$columnNode"/>
> 	<xsl:with-param name="dataGroup"	select="$group"/>
> 	<xsl:with-param name="rowKey"		
> select="*[name()=$rowKey]"/>
> 	<xsl:with-param name="repeatName" 	
> select="attribute::SORTNAME"/>	        
> </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:if>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> ----------------------------------
> This is the code that is failing:
>   <xsl:sort 
> select="*[name()=$group/ITEM/*[name()=$rowKey]]/@*[name() = 
> $sortBy]" order="{$sortOrder}" data-type="number"/>
> 
> if, I remove the following from the xsl:sort,
> 
> *[name()=$group/ITEM/*[name()=$rowKey]]/
> 
> The xsl transformation works fine.  However, I need the code 
> above for the sort to work.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks.