Element xsl:sort can be also used inside xsl:for-each elements to achieve sorting. In this case it is required that xsl:sort elements are the first children of xsl:for-each.
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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="/"> <sss> <xsl:for-each select="/aaa/bbb"> <xsl:sort/> <xsl:sort select="@x"/> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:for-each> </sss> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> |
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XML
<aaa> <bbb x="1">x</bbb> <bbb x="2">x</bbb> <bbb x="3">b</bbb> <bbb x="4">b</bbb> <bbb x="5">a</bbb> </aaa> |
Output
<sss> <bbb x="5">a</bbb> <bbb x="3">b</bbb> <bbb x="4">b</bbb> <bbb x="1">x</bbb> <bbb x="2">x</bbb> </sss> |
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