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RE: Dynamic Sorting - Using a variable to determine the sort select e xpression
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Dynamic Sorting - Using a variable to determine the sort select e xpression
- From: trace_wilson at yahoo dot com
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:06:45 +1000
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
The following was posted by Jeremy Byron and Steve Klein on the xslTalk
discussion list to answer your question:
<xsl:sort select="*[name()=$sort_by]" data-type="{$sort_type}"
order="{$sort_dir}" />
For the record, the *[name()=$sort_by] is a XPath query expression.
It means, roughly, select all child nodes of the current node (the *),
limiting them by (the [...] part) where the name of the node is equal
to the value provided (the name()=$sort_by).
Cheers,
Trace
http://www.vbxml.com
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