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Re: Using xsl:sort select attribute
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- Subject: Re: Using xsl:sort select attribute
- From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 09:25:48 -0400
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At 00/08/25 06:16 -0400, Nuri Besen wrote:
>and I do not get any sorting to be done, have tried
> <xsl:sort order="{$sortOrder}" select="string($sortColm)"/>
>but no good either.
I gather you are trying to select the first child element named by the
variable? A variable cannot be used in XPath as a step on its own, but a
variable can be used in a predicate.
>In short I am trying to make the colm parametric. Can I do it? If yes, how?
Have you tried select="*[name()=$sortColm]" which selects from all child
elements the value of the first in document order whose name is the
variable's value?
............. Ken
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