... how stupid do I feel =o/

Seriously thought thanks for spotting that it seems to work quite well now. 


Nick



-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Adams [mailto:colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 July 2006 17:17
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Is it possible to create xsl:sort from input
parameters using XSLT 2.0


It looks like you have simply missed out SortFields in your XPath

>From: Nick Glenister <NGlenister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>One of the parameters I pass is:
>
><xsl:param name="sortField"/>
>
>And into this param i pass the XML:
>
><SortFields>
>	<SortField>
>		<Sort>lendername</Sort>
>		<Order>ascending</Order>
>		<DataType>text</DataType>
>		<CaseOrder>lowercasefirst</CaseOrder>
>	</SortField>
></SortFields>
>
>
>rather than use 12 parameters (four for each <xsl:sort/>), I had hoped that
>using this XML I would be able to read the values out like so:
>
>	<xsl:sort select="$sortField/SortField[1]/Sort"
>order="{$sortField/SortField[1]/Order}"/> (and so on for the data-type and
>caseorder)
>
>
>As far as I can tell the order attribute should read "acsending" out of the
>XML but I've no real way of finding out what it is reading.
>
>thanks
>
>
>Nick
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: 31 July 2006 17:01
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re:  Is it possible to create xsl:sort from input
>parameters using XSLT 2.0 (Saxon)?
>
>
>
> > 	{"order must be 'ascending' or 'descending'"}
>it may be an AVT evaluating to either of those, so presumably in your
>case $sortField/SortField[1]/Order evaluates to something else
>(such as "" ?) what's your definition of  $sortField
>
>David
>
>
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