Hi There

A sort needs to go inside the for-each loop, so find that and pop the sort just after the for-each loop opens.  Also see http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_sort.asp

<xsl:sort select="whatToSortBy" data-type="text|number|qname" order="ascending|descending"/>

Dan

Ha, I can get karma here AND on stack overflow now ;-)

As said on SO:

You can do a sort in the first line after a for-each, like so:

<xsl:for-each select="$rootTextpageNode">
    <xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending" />
    <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" />
</xsl:for-each>

If you want to customize sorting, take a look at the sorting method in Warren Buckley's CWS.

In short: you can edit your own document types or macro to include the properties "sortBy" and "sortOrder".
To make it easier for later use, you can add two custom datatypes called "Sort By List" and "Sort Order List"

Add the following values to "Sort By List": sortOrder, createDate, updateDate.
Add the following values to "Sort Order List": ascending, descending.

Now you have a datatype you can use in your document types. I have these properties added to my document types that has a lot of subnodes under it. In my XSLT, I then look for these properties and list the subnodes accordingly.

In your XSLT, add this at the top of your template:

 <xsl:variable name="SortOrder">
  <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="$source/node/data [@alias = 'sortOrder'] != ''">
    <xsl:value-of select="$source/node/data [@alias = 'sortOrder']" />
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:text>ascending</xsl:text>
   </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:variable>

 <xsl:variable name="SortBy">
  <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="$source/node/data [@alias = 'sortBy'] != ''">
    <xsl:value-of select="$source/node/data [@alias = 'sortBy']" />
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:text>sortOrder</xsl:text>
   </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:variable>

 <xsl:variable name="DataType">
  <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="$SortBy='sortOrder'">
    <xsl:value-of select="'number'" />
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:value-of select="'text'" />
   </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:variable>

Then, directly under your for-each, add the following:

<xsl:sort select="@*[name() = $SortBy]" order="{$SortOrder}" data-type="{$DataType}"/>

Hope this helps!

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