RE: xsl:sort in old MSXML

> 
> I'm trying to use the XML support in the MSXML version 
> distributed with IE5.0 (which MSXML version is it by the way, 
> I'm guessing 2.0 or 2.5). 
> 
> So, I'm trying to use xsl:sort but the script engine tells me 
> that I cannot use the keyword xsl:sort where I use it.
> 
> Tried the following approaches:
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//question">
>   <xsl:sort select="@id" order="ascending" 
> data-type="number"/> </xsl:apply-templates>
> 
> and
> <xsl:for-each select="//question">
>     <xsl:sort select="@id" order="ascending" 
> data-type="number"/> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> None of these seems to work.
> Exact error message is: Keyword xsl:sort may not be used here.
> 
> The same things happens when I try to use xsl:param and 
> xsl:variable as well.
> 
> BTW, the namespace declaration in my stylesheet is: 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what to do?
> 

It's a long while since we've seen this, it used to come up twice a day.

WD-xsl is not XSLT. You can't get a C compiler to process Java, and you
can't get a WD-xsl processor to process XSLT. They are different
languages. If you want to write XSLT, you will need an XSLT processor.

Michael Kay


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