RE: passing values from JavaScript to XSL using MSXML3

[Neil and Bryan, thanks for the help. But I am still confused about the
best
way of doing what I'm tring to accompish. Here is what it is: I have two
sort options, a menu and radio buttons, that are supposed make the XML
data
be sorted according to any specified tag and acend or decend. I am sure
this
comes up often, but I don't know if there is a good solution for it.
Another
thing to note is that I do my transformation on the server-side with
PHP. I
have some questions. How is it possible to use the <xml:param> element
inside <xsl:template match="/">? and Why can't you just do something
like
this: <xml:param name="sortBy"><input name="sortOrderButton"
type="radio"
value="ascending">Ascending</input></xml:param>, that is after you
manage it
to get it inside <xsl:template match="/">?
So if this all doen't work out I am just going to stick to
<msxsl:script>
]

you can't have xsl:sort as a child of xsl:template.

You can have it apply to xsl:for-each and xsl:apply-templates.

So (I can't remember the original thing you were trying to do so here's
an example)
<xsl:template match="/">
<result>
<xsl:for-each select="/Mabinogion/event">
<xsl:sort select="date" order="descending" />
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each></result>
</xsl:template>

here's a reasonable intro to sorting in xslt:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/03/transform.html


the reason why you can't do the above is that the xslt just outputs a
result tree, there's no way to pass in user input in the transformation
unless you build that way. So what you would do is to have the following
process:

application gets xml passes to xslt, xslt outputs form, form posts back
to application, application passes in relevant data to xslt as
parameters.

Obviously it could be done without a post, but you would have to use the
normal ways to get form data without a post, such as calling a
javascript function to read the form data. 

Lets say you want to build your sort dynamically, you could have the
following:

<xsl:param name="sortthis"/>
<!--sortthis is the parameter being sent in by the application, it will
be either 'date' or 'type'-->

<xsl:template match="/">
<result>
<xsl:for-each select="/Mabinogion/event">
<xsl:sort select="*[name() = $sortthis]" order="descending" />
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</result>
</xsl:template>

commonly I prefer to pass values contained in the querystring rather
than in post data, I guess I just like get. 






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