If you have an element <e att="3"> then the name of the attribute node
(as returned by the local-name() function) is "att", not "@att".

Michael Kay

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> Sent: 10 December 2003 11:20
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> Subject:  Fwd: Parameterised Sorts
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm fairly new to xsl but I have looked everywhere to the 
> answer to my problem 
> with no joy.  Perhaps someone can help?
> 
> I have a table that I need to allow the sort order to be 
> changeable on so I 
> have implemented a parameter based sort like so:
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="teams/group">
>    <xsl:sort select="*[local-name()=string($sortRequested)]" 
> order="{$sortOrderRequested}"/>
> </xsl:apply-templates>
> 
> If $sortRequested = 'name' and name is a node below group it 
> works OK. If $sortRequested = '@name' and name is an 
> attribute of group it dosn't work.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> Thanks for any help.
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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