RE: dictating node processing order

Hi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Nathan Shaw
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:28 PM
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  dictating node processing order
> 
> 
> I am trying to allow an end user of an application to
> have the ability to pass in which fields they would
> like to see and in which order, as well as, what the
> sort order should be, when they view the results page
> of a search run against an LDAP server.
> 
> To accomplish this, I am shoving their desired fields
> (which are ordered in the order in which they should
> be displayed in the resulting XHTML document) and sort
> order into the XML document so that I can pick them
> out with my XSLT (this was chosen instead of passing
> params into the parser for portability's sake).
> 

(...)

> However, when trying to output the desired fields in
> the proper order, I am running into design problems.
> 
> This is what I am attempting now, but apparently 
> xsl:apply-templates needs an actual node set, not a string 
> representing a pointer to a node set.
> 

Try this:
<xsl:template match="searchResult">
  <xsl:variable name="res" select="."/>
  <tr>
    <xsl:for-each
select="following-sibling::supplementaryData/display/displayField">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="$res/*[name()=current()]"/>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </tr>
</xsl:template>

(...)

Regards,
Américo Albuquerque



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