Hi,

I'm just trying to sort my RSS list. I've tried several ways to sort after my for-each and also within apply-templates.

The first sort is on updateDate to get the newest update date. Maybe that is affecting the later sort? (I've tried it w/o no sort after the first one).

I must be getting the syntax wrong or not understand the context because it doesn't make any difference, I get get the sort order to change. My only parameter in this case is ?t=news:

I've tried the following sorts after the for-each area and apply templates:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet 
 version="1.0" 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
 xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:ps="urn:percipientstudios-com:xslt"
 xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
  xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" xmlns:umbraco.contour="urn:umbraco.contour" xmlns:Designit.VideoEmbed="urn:Designit.VideoEmbed" xmlns:autofolders.library="urn:autofolders.library" 
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets umbraco.contour Designit.VideoEmbed autofolders.library ">


<xsl:include href="cprGetPrimaryImage.xslt" />

<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
  <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
  <!-- params passed via querystring:    p=the page/world name (assigned to "pageName"), 
                  t=the one word title of the feed (assigned to "feedTitle"), 
                  n=the number of recent stories to show in the feed (assigned to "feedNumItems") -->
  <xsl:variable name="pageName">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="string-length(umbraco.library:Request('p')) &gt; 0">
        <xsl:text>cprFeatures</xsl:text>
        <xsl:value-of select="string(umbraco.library:Request('p'))" />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="''" />
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:variable name="parentId">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="string-length(umbraco.library:Request('id')) &gt; 0">
        <xsl:value-of select="string(umbraco.library:Request('id'))" />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="'1'" />
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:variable name="feedType">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="string-length(umbraco.library:Request('t')) &gt; 0">
        <xsl:value-of select="string(umbraco.library:Request('t'))" />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="news" />
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:variable name="feedTitle">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="string-length($feedType) &gt; 0">
        <xsl:value-of select="'RSS Feed: '"/>
    <xsl:if test="$feedType = 'news'">Capital Public Radio News</xsl:if>
        <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($parentId)/@nodeName" />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="'All Items'" />
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="feedNumItems">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="string-length(umbraco.library:Request('n')) &gt; 0">
        <xsl:value-of select="string(umbraco.library:Request('n'))" />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="'10'" />
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:variable name="parentNodeImage">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$parentId &gt; 0">
 <xsl:call-template name="getprimaryimageurl"><xsl:with-param name="nodeid" select="$parentId" /></xsl:call-template>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>&nbsp;</xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:variable name="SiteURL" select="concat(' http://',string(umbraco.library:RequestServerVariables('HTTP_HOST')))"/>

  <!-- takes querystring keyword parameters and construct description -->

  <xsl:variable name="feedDescription">
    <xsl:value-of select="'Stories related to '"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="$feedTitle" />
  </xsl:variable>

  <!-- This gets all news and events and orders by updateDate to use for the pubDate in RSS feed -->
  <xsl:variable name="pubDate">
    <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node">

      <xsl:sort select="@updateDate" data-type="text" order="descending" />  

      <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
        <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(@updateDate,'r')" />
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ChangeContentType('text/xml')"/>
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;</xsl:text>
    <rss version="2.0"
    xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
    xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
      <!-- sets up the header for the feed -->
      <channel>
        <title>
          <xsl:value-of select="$feedTitle"/>
        </title>
    <image>
         <url>http://capradio.org/images/logo250px.png</url>;
              <title>Capital Public Radio</title>
               <link>http://capradio.org</link>;
   </image>
        <link>
          <xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>
        </link>
        <pubDate>
          <xsl:value-of select="$pubDate"/>
        </pubDate>
        <generator>umbraco</generator>
        <description>
          <xsl:value-of select="$feedDescription"/>
        </description>
        <language>en</language>


        <!-- find out which feed to serve based on querystring parameter -->
        <!-- if the feed parameter (keyword) is passed, use nodes where the keyword field contains the keyword parameter -->
        <!-- if no feed (keyword) parameter is passed, then show rss from all nodes -->

  <xsl:variable name="nodes" select="ps:GetRss(umbraco.library:Request('t'), $parentId)" />
        <xsl:if test="$nodes != ''">
          <xsl:variable name="splitNodes" select="umbraco.library:Split($nodes, ',')" />
          <xsl:for-each select="$splitNodes/value">
       <xsl:variable name="currentNode" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(.)" />
       <xsl:if test="$currentNode/@id != '' ">
             <xsl:apply-templates select="$currentNode"> 

<xsl:sort select="data [@alias = 'displayDate']" order="descending"/>
         </xsl:apply-templates>
      </xsl:if>
          </xsl:for-each>
        </xsl:if>

      </channel>
    </rss>

  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="node">
    <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= $feedNumItems">
      <item>
        <title>
          <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
        </title>
        <description>
          <xsl:value-of select="data [@alias = 'teaser']" />
        </description>
        <link>
          <xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>
          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)"/>
        </link>
        <pubDate> 
          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(./data [@alias='displayDate'],'r')" />

        </pubDate>
        <guid>
          <xsl:value-of select="$SiteURL"/>
          <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)"/>
        </guid>
        <xsl:variable name="nodeimg"><xsl:call-template name="getprimaryimageurl"><xsl:with-param name="nodeid" select="@id" /></xsl:call-template></xsl:variable>
    <xsl:if test="$nodeimg != '' and $nodeimg != '&nbsp;'">
   <enclosure>
       <xsl:attribute name="url">http://www.capradio.org<xsl:value-of select="$nodeimg" /></xsl:attribute>
     <xsl:attribute name="type">image/jpeg</xsl:attribute>
   </enclosure>
  </xsl:if>
        <content:encoded>

          <xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;![CDATA[ ', ./data [@alias='teaser'],']]&gt;')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
        </content:encoded>
      </item>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="getprimaryimageurl">
  <xsl:param name="nodeid"/>

    <xsl:variable name="relations" select="ps:GetRelatedNodes($nodeid, 'PrimaryImage')"/> 

    <xsl:for-each select="$relations">
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="node() and relations/relation/node/@id != ''"><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($relations/relations/relation/node/@id, 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']" /></xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>&nbsp;</xsl:otherwise>
     </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>