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Hi David, > You seemed to get this msg to the list. Wendell, thanks. I didn't > think of that. BTW, can I use an xsl:attribute tag for another xsl > element? Since Wendell nabbed the other question, I'll answer this one ;) I take it you're asking whether you can use xsl:attribute to dynamically create an attribute on an XSLT element. So you're asking if you can do: <xsl:sort> <xsl:attribute name="select"> <xsl:value-of select="$sortby" /> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:sort> As a way of getting around the fact that $sortby is a string and you want to interpret it as an XPath expression. The answer is no, you can't. You can only use xsl:attribute to add attributes onto result elements (whether created with literal result elements or with xsl:element). Of course if the 'xsl:sort' were a literal result element, then it would be fine. So if you were generating a stylesheet from your stylesheet, and set up a namespace alias for the XSLT namespace so that 'oxsl' was the prefix used for the XSLT elements you're generating, you can do: <oxsl:sort> <xsl:attribute name="select"> <xsl:value-of select="$sortby" /> </xsl:attribute> </oxsl:sort> and it will generate: <oxsl:sort select="Amount[../IsCredit = 1]" /> By the way, I suggest that you forward your use case on to xsl-editors@xxxxxx - hopefully if they receive enough use cases then they will add an evaluate() function to XSLT 2.0, so that you could just do: <xsl:sort select="evaluate($sortby)" /> Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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