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Reverse sorting

Attribute order which is set to the value "descending" enables sorting in reverse order.

XSLT

      <xsl:stylesheet
                  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                  version="2.0">
            <xsl:output  method="xml"
                        indent="yes"
                        omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

            <xsl:template  match="/">
                  <xsl:apply-templates  select="/aaa/bbb">
                        <xsl:sort  select="@x"
                                    order="descending"/>
                  </xsl:apply-templates>
            </xsl:template>

            <xsl:template  match="bbb">
                  <bbb>
                        <xsl:value-of  select="."/>
                  </bbb>
            </xsl:template>

      </xsl:stylesheet>
XML

      <aaa>
            <bbb  x="b">BBB</bbb>
            <bbb  x="d">DDD</bbb>
            <bbb  x="c">CCC</bbb>
            <bbb  x="a">AAA</bbb>
      </aaa>
Output

      <bbb>DDD</bbb>
      <bbb>CCC</bbb>
      <bbb>BBB</bbb>
      <bbb>AAA</bbb>


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