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> Thanks for your reply, when I read about the > xsl:sort, it seems > to me that for the select attribute we can specify an > expression (this can > be any xpath expression ?). Well if I tried that (I specifed > the XPath > expression as "/xx/yy/zz/sortColumn", it doesn't seem to be > working.. That expression has the same value for every node being sorted. Your expression evaluates to the sort key. It doesn't evaluate to a string containing an expression that evaluates to the sort key. (If you want that, you need the xx:evaluate() extension function available in some products, e.g. Saxon and Xalan). And > for the order attribute, I can only use the string "ascending > | descending". > I can't even use a variable. You can use an attribute value template here, order="{$order}" Mike Kay > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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