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I'm not sure what you mean by "links" - you mean the user clicking on something? Personally my preferred method of doing this is to have a fixed stylesheet, but with dynamically-evaluated XPath expressions representing the sort keys - you can pass these expressions into the stylesheet as parameters, or store them in a source document acting as a configuration file; it's very flexible. It means using an extension such as saxon:evaluate or EXSLT's dyn:evaluate, but in my view it's a much cleaner design than modifying the stylesheet as a whole - that approach strikes me as a maintenance nightmare unless you design it very carefully. The details do depend rather on whether you want to do it client side or server side. There's a detailed example of how to do it (client side, modifying the stylesheet each time) in the MSXML3 appendix of the 2nd edition of my XSLT Programmer's Reference - it didn't get carried through to the 3rd edition which is all about XSLT 2.0. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel O'Donnell [mailto:daniel.odonnell@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: 31 January 2005 22:08 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Changing stylesheets though links > > Hi all, > I'm looking for a method of changing stylesheets via > links. The goal > would be to allow users to resort the same data according to > different > keys (e.g. by choosing "resort date" "resort name" etc.). In > each case, > the same xml would load, only the stylesheet would change. If > there is > another method of doing this, I'm not wedded to this approach. > I figure this must be a faq, but a search of the > archives shows only > one abandoned thread on the topic from 1999 (unless I'm using > the wrong > terminology): > <http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/199908/msg0025 > 9.html> I > also haven't seen anything at w3c or in the usual primers. > > Any advice or where to look or how to do it? > -dan > > -- > Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD > Associate Professor of English > University of Lethbridge > Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 > Tel. (403) 329-2377 > Fax. (403) 382-7191 > E-mail <daniel.odonnell@xxxxxxxx> > Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> > The Digital Medievalist Project: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/>
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