Do you use an older Xalan version (e.g. 2.2)? A few days ago I had the
same problem with such an old version. Try "data[position() = $column]".
You can also try Michael's suggestion using number($column), maybe there
is only a problem with the evaluating $column to a number.
Joerg
Kasper Nielsen wrote:
hi (another question)
lets say I want to some data for the $column data-column
<projects>
<project name="a">
<data> 1237</data>
<data> 1234</data>
<data> 1235</data>
<data> 1236</data>
</project>
<project name="b">
<data> 12</data>
<data> 41234</data>
<data> 51235</data>
<data> 71236</data>
</project>
<project name="c">
<data> 1</data>
<data> 41234</data>
<data> 51235</data>
<data> 71236</data>
</project>
</projects>
so if $column=1 then it would sort them into {project name="c", project
name="b", project name="a"}
however i've tried
<xsl:for-each select="projects/project">
<xsl:sort select="./data[$column]" data-type="number"/>
but it doesn't work?
however if just use something like
<xsl:sort select="./data[1]" data-type="number"/> it works fine
anyone can tell me what im doing wrong?
regards
Kasper Nielsen
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