- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:00:36 +0100
- To: "'Jeni Tennison'" <jeni@jenitennison.com>, xsl-editors@w3.org
> If you decide to go ahead with xsl:sort-key or something similar, do > you think it would be handy to allow those elements that can take > xsl:sort as children (i.e. xsl:for-each, xsl:apply-templates, > xsl:for-each-group) to be able to point to those named sort > specifications? > > It would make them more reusable, and the transition between sorting > in XPath and sorting in XSLT more manageable (improving the > maintainability of the stylesheet). > I did think about that, but found it hard to justify why someone would want to use this facility - unless we did in such a way as to provide dynamic selection of sort keys. If it's simply a question of having the xsl:sort statements at the top level rather than inline, my own view is that people probably wouldn't use the facility; certainly its value would be marginal. Mike Kay
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