To be specific, I want the result of:
	<xsl:sort select="$sortkey" order="descending"/>
with parameter sortkey:
	<xsl:with-param name="sortkey" select="@name"/>
to be equivalent to:
	<xsl:sort select="@name" order="descending"/>

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