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RE: Passing sort criteria as a paramter

Subject: RE: Passing sort criteria as a paramter
From: "David B. Bitton" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 01:10:45 -0500
sort criteria
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?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Gene LaCava
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 7:26 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Passing sort criteria as a paramter
> 
> 
> Wendell:
> 
> Can you tell me how to post a question to this list server ? 
> I have tried 3
> times already with no luck...
> 
> Thank Yoou
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wendell Piez" <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re:  Passing sort criteria as a paramter
> 
> 
> > David,
> >
> > I can't claim to be Jeni (well I could but no one would be 
> fooled), but
> >
> > At 04:33 PM 1/24/02, you wrote:
> > >I have been passing the sort element name into my xsl by way of a
> > >parameter.  I then do this:
> > >
> > ><xsl:sort select="*[local-name() = $sortby"]">
> > >
> > >and this works great.  Now, I want to qualify the element 
> name, such
> > >that the select attribute would read
> > >
> > >select="Amount[../IsCredit=1]"
> > >
> > >if I wanted to just park the select attribute at one element.
> > >
> > >Now, how can I pass the above predicated element name into the
> > >stylesheet?
> >
> > If you just mean to apply the predicate to a dynamic 
> element name, you
> > would use the same idiom:
> >
> > select="*[local-name()=$sortby][../IsCredit=1]"
> >
> > This translates into English as
> >
> > "sort by the values of the element children whose name 
> equals $sortby and
> > whose parents have a child 'IsCredit' element whose value equals 1"
> >
> > But if you need to pass the whole thing in, as in passing 
> in the string
> > "Amount[../IsCredit=1]", you're stuck, unless the pattern is regular
> enough
> > to break it down into pieces and use the same value-testing trick
> > (sometimes testing the value of the name) on each piece 
> separately. But
> > your example leads me to think that's unlikely to cover your case.
> >
> > Unfortunately you can't pass an XPath expression in as a 
> parameter and
> > expect it to be evaluated: if it's a string, it's a string, 
> not an XPath
> > expression. If the name testing workaround isn't enough, 
> some processors
> > have extension functions for this; or if you're really 
> stuck an expression
> > can be parameterized by having a stylesheet generate your 
> stylesheet.
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > Wendell
> >
> >
> > 
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