RE: [xsl] Passing sort criteria as a paramter

["Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>]

> I have been passing the sort element name into my xsl by way of a
> parameter.  I then do this:
>
> <xsl:sort select="*[local-name() = $sortby"]">
>
> and this works great.  Now, I want to qualify the element name, such
> that the select attribute would read
>
> select="Amount[../IsCredit=1]"
>
> if I wanted to just park the select attribute at one element.
>
> Now, how can I pass the above predicated element name into the
> stylesheet?

If you want to process general XPath expressions supplied as strings, you
need a processor that supports the evaluate() extension function, e.g. Saxon
or Xalan.

Mike Kay


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