Hey James,
I ran this just fine within msxml4:
...
<xsl:variable name="mss">
<witness sigil="A" shortname="Alex"/>
<witness sigil="B" shortname="Betty"/>
<witness sigil="E" shortname="Evan"/>
<witness sigil="D" shortname="Darlene"/>
<witness sigil="C" shortname="Charlie"/>
<witness sigil="G" shortname="Georgia"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:for-each select="msxsl:node-set($unique-wit-list)/*">
<!--<xsl:sort select="name()" data-type="text"/>-->
<xsl:sort
select="msxsl:node-set($mss)//witness[(_at_)sigil=name(current())]/@shortname"/>
<a href="foo/a1.xml?wit='{name()}'">
<xsl:value-of
select="msxsl:node-set($mss)//witness[(_at_)sigil=name(current())]/@shortname"/>
</a><br />
</xsl:for-each>
...
Might a bug with your parser(?).
-Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: James Cummings [mailto:James(_dot_)Cummings(_at_)uea(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:46 PM
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Subject: [xsl] Re: Merging attribute values to unique list
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:31:12 +0100
From: David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: Merging attribute values to unique list
I've tried to do something like:
<xsl:sort select="$mss//witness[(_at_)sigil=name()]/@shortname"/>
but this fails.
looking at the definition you used for $sigil that was the name() of the
current node in the for-each but if you replace $sigsil by name() you'll
get the name of the current node at that point in the expression, which
is the name of the witness element so it will always be te hstring
"witness".
You want
<xsl:sort select="$mss//witness[(_at_)sigil=name(current())]/@shortname"/>
David
When I replace the <xsl:sort select="name()"/> with the
above, I get a NullPointerException.
Suggestions?
-James
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