RE: Q on <xsl:sort>

Simplify your problem to concentrate on what you are asking,
and remove the extra junk. I created four timestamps and modified
@unix and text() nodes to test the sort. Note the @unix and text()
values are not derived from one from the other.

Compare the sort order of the following output:

987413416002, 2001-04-16T04:30:35
987413416000, 2001-04-16T04:30:34
987413416001, 2001-04-16T04:30:33
987413416003, 2001-04-16T04:30:32
------------------------
987413416003, 2001-04-16T04:30:32
987413416002, 2001-04-16T04:30:35
987413416001, 2001-04-16T04:30:33
987413416000, 2001-04-16T04:30:34

Regards,

Dan

File: Torres2May2001.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Torres2May2001.xsl"?>

<root>
 <timestamp unix='987413416003'>2001-04-16T04:30:32</timestamp>
 <timestamp unix='987413416000'>2001-04-16T04:30:34</timestamp>
 <timestamp unix='987413416002'>2001-04-16T04:30:35</timestamp>
 <timestamp unix='987413416001'>2001-04-16T04:30:33</timestamp>
</root>

File: Torres2May2001.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
   
 <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="root"/>
 </xsl:template>
   
 <xsl:template match="root">
  <xsl:for-each select="timestamp">
   <xsl:sort select="text()" data-type="text" order="descending"/>
   <xsl:value-of select="@unix"/>,
   <xsl:value-of select="text()"/><br/>
 </xsl:for-each>
 <hr/>
 <xsl:for-each select="timestamp">
  <xsl:sort select="@unix" data-type="number" order="descending"/>
   <xsl:value-of select="@unix"/>,
   <xsl:value-of select="text()"/><br/>
  </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:template>  
</xsl:stylesheet>


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