Kaifish,

Can you tell us more about what you want to order? How are you retrieving your data?

Example

<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [@isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']"> 
  <xsl:sort select="current()/eventSort"  order="ascending" />
  <!-- Whatever needs to be Loaded -->
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>

It's fairly complex. Here is a simplistic version.

   <?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:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
  xmlns:ControlData="urn:ControlData"
  xmlns:TokenDates="urn:TokenDates"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes"
  xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings"
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltStrings ControlData TokenDates">


  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

  <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
  <xsl:variable name="parentNode" select="/macro/parentNode"/>
  <xsl:variable name="eventSortBy" select="/macro/eventSortBy"/>
  <xsl:variable name="eventSortOrder" select="/macro/eventSortOrder"/>
  <xsl:variable name="MaxItemsPerGroup" select="/macro/MaxItemsPerGroup"/>



  <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:for-each select="$parentNode/Event">

    <xsl:sort select="$eventSortBy" order="ascending"/>
    <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= $MaxItemsPerGroup">
      <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
    </xsl:if>

  </xsl:for-each>

  </xsl:template>


    
  </xsl:stylesheet>

Can you tr, and tell me what is the output....it should be Sorting by latest date created

  <xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending" />

It is - I can place the text I want to pass into the sort and it will work the way it needs to.

Ex.

 <xsl:sort select="EventStartDate" order="descending" />

or

 <xsl:sort select="eventCity" order="descending" />

both of which are properties of the doctype I am pulling. I'm trying to set the sort type when I place my macro so I do not have to create different macros based on what output I am creating.

I've seen forums that answer that the code below is the correct way to do this, but it isn't working for me. I'm guessing the reason is because I am using the new syntax.

<xsl:sort select="data [@alias = 'productTitle']" order="ascending"/>

Might be worth noting that below works:

<xsl:sort select="cityName" order="{$eventSortOrder}"/>

but when attempting to put, what would logically make sense, I get an error for this:

<xsl:sort select="{$eventSortBy}" order="{$eventSortOrder}"/>

Error (though not that descriptive):

Error in XSLT at line 149, char 15
147:
                  <xsl:for-each select="$parentNode/descendant::* 
[@isDoc and name() = 'Event' and 
contains(string(./EventType),$EventType) and 
umbraco.library:DateGreaterThanOrEqual($EndDate, ./EventStartDate) and 
umbraco.library:DateGreaterThanOrEqual(./EventEndDate, $StartDate)]">
148:      
149: >>>                <xsl:sort select="{$eventSortBy}" order="{$eventSortOrder}"/> <<<
150:      
151:
                    <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= 
$MaxItemsPerGroup">_test_ <xsl:value-of select="$eventSortBy"/>
 - <xsl:value-of select="$eventSortOrder"/>

Here is the answer for anybody else having the issue. You have to use multiple sort lines. This really works like an if statement. Ex.

<xsl:sort select="eventCity [$eventSortBy = 'eventCity']" order="{$eventSortOrder}" />
<xsl:sort select="EventStartDate[$eventSortBy = 'EventStartDate']" order="{$eventSortOrder}" />

Thanks a lot!

It was driving me crazy ;-)

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