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Re: Fwd: Re: unable to dynamically set sort order
- To: hydbad at hotmail dot com
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Fwd: Re: unable to dynamically set sort order
- From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:08:48 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
bharat chintapally wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, when I read about the xsl:sort, it seems
> xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com to me that for the select attribute we
> can specify an expression (this can
> be any xpath expression ?). Well if I tried that (I specifed the XPath
> expression as "/xx/yy/zz/sortColumn", it doesn't seem to be working.. And
> for the order attribute, I can only use the string "ascending | descending".
> I can't even use a variable.. This seems to be weird restriction. Why can't
> this values be evaluated when a template is applied. BTW what is an AVT-s
> are you talking abour data stru. AVT.
Bharat,
Mike Kay already recommended to you to visit the FAQ site.
The best I can only add is that reading a good book on XSLT will not hurt either.
I can recommend Mike's book "XSLT Programmer's Reference".
Dimitre Novatchev.
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