Have you tried <xsl:sort> http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_sort.asp

Ron, this is in .net C#,  this is not sorting in xslt sorry for the confusion

but at this point i have come to believe it is not possible to sort an iterator except for putting it all into new sortable structure by going over every item in the iterator...

Have you considdered using linq to xml?

http://mstanciu.blogspot.com/2008/08/sorting-elements-in-xml-document.html

When using C# I always prefer to use Linq to Xml

You can load the contents of your iterator using XDocument.Parse(

i will give it a shot first thing in the morning, or maybe if i find some time tonight.

thanks for the input and i'll get back to this post after trying it out.

i'm back quicker than i tought,

2 remarks:

1. the way i see it in the article, i still need to go over my iterator to pump the xml back into an xdocument in order to sort it with the linq functionality
2. and secondly, but probably more difficult to ignore, the site runs in a 2.0 environement. this technique will probably only work on 3.5.

You can use:

var myDoc = XDocument.Parse(myNavigator.OuterXml.ToString())

If you can't install 3.5 this technique is useless indeed.

Some other code you can use instead of getXmlNodeByXpath :

XPathNavigator navigator = content.Instance.XmlContent.CreateNavigator();

navigator.Select(navigator.Compile(".....").AddSort(....));

Ron

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