I'm very new to xml and xsl.

I'm trying to do something like this:

<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$cruiseSortCol = 'Itinerary'">
        <xsl:sort order="{$cruiseSortDir}" select="substring-before(Itinerary,'-')" data-type="{$cruiseSortType}" />
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:sort order="{$cruiseSortDir}" select="*[name()=$cruiseSortCol]" data-type="{$cruiseSortType}" />
    </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

Basically, I have a dynamic sort that works with parameters passed in, the problem is one of the columns is a string (ie. 7-day). I need to sort this column based on the number value (substring-before(Itinerary,'-')) works on its own, but I need to have different search criteria based on the column being passed in.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
vc

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Victor Corey

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Victor Corey

Define two sort keys, in such a way that one of them has no effect:

<xsl:for-each select=".....">
  <xsl:sort order="{$cruiseSortDir}"
            select="*[$cruiseSortCol!='Itinerary'][name()=$cruiseSortCol]" data-type="{$cruiseSortType}" />

  <xsl:sort order="{$cruiseSortDir}" select="substring-before(Itinerary,'-')" data-type="{$cruiseSortType}" />


Michael Kay
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Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference