You can use xsl:sort direct after the xsl:for-each. eg:

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

How it is done in the CWS2 I have to look into it first, but perhaps this will take you to the right direction.

Thomas

Hi Frank,

you can sort your listing by adding a sort tag inside your for-each loop.

   <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node">
       <xsl:sort select="@name"/>
          <xsl:value-of select="@name"/><br/>
   </xsl:for-each>

and if you want to sort by two values you can simply add another sort tag

   <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node">
       <xsl:sort select="@name"/>
      <xsl:sort select="@createdate"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="@name"/><br/>
   </xsl:for-each>

to sort in descending order you can write

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

hope this helps.

Tim

Do you have a line like the following in your xslt?

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

it should probably be just after the for-each that lists your news/events nodes.  The above code won't work directly but should point you in the right direction.  more at http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_sort.asp.

It may be that the macro parameters are not being sent to the xslt correctly (from the template in which the macro is embedded).

Thanks guys this is definitely getting me to the right place.

One last question:

My News and Events List Doc type has 2 generic properties:   Sort By (sortBy) and Sort Order (sortOrder).  sortBy

sortBy has the following values (sortOrder, createDate and updateDate)  Sortorder has the values (ascending, descending).

I can get my xslt to sort the way I want like so:

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

This is good, but if I want the sort to obey the Sort By and Sort order properties in the doc type, how do I specify that in xslt?

I went through the XSLT tutorial, but I think the problem is I dont know what xml is being passed to my transfor, so Im not sure what to write... 

@dandrayne - I tried your statement above and that didnt work -- what does the {$...}  do? 

Thanks again for your help

"but I think the problem is I dont know what xml is being passed to my transfor"

You can view the raw xml document at /data/umbraco.config

Chris

Use xsl:copy-of to get the raw xml (it will probably not display in the browser, but in the html-code it is there)

Thomas

Okay, I've got everything working now.  Here is what I needed to do:

in my XSLT transform, I had to do the following:

1.   Get the SortOrder and SortBy variables from the current page data:

    <!-- Get Properties of how to sort the blog items-->
    <xsl:variable name="SortOrder" select="$currentPage/data [@alias = 'sortOrder']" />
    <xsl:variable name="SortBy" select="$currentPage/data [@alias = 'sortBy']" />

2.  I had to make sure that the SortBy variable had the correct data type

    <!--
    =============================================================
    Lets setup a variable called DataType. If the user has
    chosen 'sortOrder' from the sortBy dropdown list, then we
    need to set the datatype variable to = number otherwise it
    will sort the data wrongly.   
    =============================================================
    -->
    <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>

3.  In my xsl:for-each  statement, I needed to make sure the selected subnodes were only nodes that had the SortBy and SortOrder parameters (This isn't technically necessary because the News and Events document doesnt allow anything but News items and Event items and both those items have these, but the page testing will fail if I dont do this.

          <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'CWS_EventItem' or @nodeTypeAlias = 'CWS_NewsItem']">

4. Now I can do the sort correctly as:

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

This sorts the nodes using the attribute specified in SortBy and using the ordering specified by SortOrder. 

Thanks everyone!

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