I'm not sure what you mean by "links" - you mean the user clicking on
something?
Personally my preferred method of doing this is to have a fixed stylesheet,
but with dynamically-evaluated XPath expressions representing the sort keys
- you can pass these expressions into the stylesheet as parameters, or store
them in a source document acting as a configuration file; it's very
flexible. It means using an extension such as saxon:evaluate or EXSLT's
dyn:evaluate, but in my view it's a much cleaner design than modifying the
stylesheet as a whole - that approach strikes me as a maintenance nightmare
unless you design it very carefully.
The details do depend rather on whether you want to do it client side or
server side.
There's a detailed example of how to do it (client side, modifying the
stylesheet each time) in the MSXML3 appendix of the 2nd edition of my XSLT
Programmer's Reference - it didn't get carried through to the 3rd edition
which is all about XSLT 2.0.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel O'Donnell [mailto:daniel(_dot_)odonnell(_at_)uleth(_dot_)ca]
Sent: 31 January 2005 22:08
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Changing stylesheets though links
Hi all,
I'm looking for a method of changing stylesheets via
links. The goal
would be to allow users to resort the same data according to
different
keys (e.g. by choosing "resort date" "resort name" etc.). In
each case,
the same xml would load, only the stylesheet would change. If
there is
another method of doing this, I'm not wedded to this approach.
I figure this must be a faq, but a search of the
archives shows only
one abandoned thread on the topic from 1999 (unless I'm using
the wrong
terminology):
<http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/199908/msg0025
9.html> I
also haven't seen anything at w3c or in the usual primers.
Any advice or where to look or how to do it?
-dan
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