XSLT <sort> Element

The XSLT <xsl:sort> element allows you to sort the output of the <xsl:for-each> element.

<xsl:sort> Example

Here, we use <xsl:for-each> to loop through each "tutorial" element, and <xsl:sort> to sort by the "name" node. We then use the <xsl:value-of> to extract data from the "name" node.

Code
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="tutorials"> <xsl:for-each select="tutorial"> <xsl:sort select="name"/> <xsl:value-of select="name"/><xsl:element name="br"/> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

Result

So, let's see what would happen if we applied the above XSLT document to the following XML document:

Code
<tutorials> <tutorial> <name>XML Tutorial</name> <url>http://www.quackit.com/xml/tutorial</url> </tutorial> <tutorial> <name>HTML Tutorial</name> <url>http://www.quackit.com/html/tutorial</url> </tutorial> </tutorials>

Before:

This is how the contents would be displayed before applying the <xsl:sort> element:

After:

This is how the contents would be displayed after applying the <xsl:sort> element:

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