Re: Using Javascript to pass a parameter to the <xsl:sort> element

That's amazing, thank you!

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"Martin Honnen" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Maria Amuchastegui wrote:
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>> I am trying to use Javascript to pass a parameter to the <xsl:sort> 
>> element. The parameter seems to be getting passed but the data is not 
>> sorting. I read "The XSLT/JavaScript Interface in Gecko" but the code 
>> does not seem to work. Any suggestions on how to get it to work?
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> Here is a working XHTML example:
> <http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xslt/test2005032201.xhtml>
> Take note that the whole page is XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml 
> with the normal XHTML elements in the XHTML namespace 
> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml and your embedded XML data is explicitly in 
> the null namespace.
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> I am surprised that your approach does initially render something but in 
> general as XML data islands are not supported in Mozilla any attempt to 
> embed XML data in a HTML document served as text/html and then trying to 
> process that data as XML has to fail as all there is in the browser DOM 
> are not XML elements but unknown HTML elements.
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> So the problem in your approach is here:
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>> <xml id="ChargeableMessages" style="display:none;">
>>  <chargeablemessages>
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> What Mozilla sees if you serve all that stuff as text/html is not XML but 
> HTML.
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> If you can't use application/xhtml+xml then you should not embed the XML 
> directly inside of the HTML document but load it from an external file the 
> same way as you load the XSLT stylesheet.
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> Martin Honnen
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/