RE: [xsl] query string vaules

[alex <shortestpath at yahoo dot com>]

hi Joshua... 

what I want to do is create a sortable html
table. You click on a column header to sort
rows based on that column. 

I have a javascript function which builds 
a query string that looks like this:

?sortKey=[theColumn]&sortOrder=[ascOrDesc]

The request goes to the server, and I want
to be able use the query string values. I 
did consider using <xsl:parameter> but I 
just didn't know how to. I tried:

<xsl:parameter name="sortKey"   select="???" />
<xsl:parameter name="sortOrder" select="???" />

The further down in my stylesheet, I have:

<xsl:for-each select="Orders/RowId">
  <xsl:sort select="$sortKey" />
  <xsl:sort select="{$sortOrder}" />
  ...

(I read somewhere that I had to escape the order,
using the curly braces.) I hope I'm not on the
wrong track here. Any more help is greatly
appreciated!

thanks in advance,
-alex

In the <xsl:parameter>, I didn't know what
to put for the select. 

--- Joshua.Kuswadi@BTFinancialgroup.com wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> Not knowing exactly how you are using XSL and presuming you are creating
> HTML, have you considered using the <xsl:parameter> for the stylesheet
> from whatever technology is on your server?
> 
> Joshua
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: alex [mailto:shortestpath@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday,23 January 2002 11:34
> > To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
> > Subject: [xsl] query string vaules
> > 
> > 
> > I was wondering if there was a way to get the
> > query string attributes and values into my
> > xsl stylesheet.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > -alex

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