Hi Preeti,

you can use select="$firstValue", but it won't sort anything:
The value of the variable is the same for all nodes in your
for-each or apply-templates. In particular, the variable is not
evaluated, i.e. it cannot contain an XPath to use for the sorting.

On the other hand, order="{$ord}" would work as expected.
Note the {}.

Regards,
Markus

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Von: 	Preeti Chopra
Gesendet: 	Freitag, 25. Juli 2003 23:02
An: 	XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: 	 using variable in order attribute of xsl:sort

Hi experts

Is there any way I can use the following code

<xsl:sort select="$firstValue" order="$ord" />

firstValue and ord are the variables already defined.

Regards
Preeti


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