Hi Murali,

> I made the change you suggested. I use the xalan
> processor(xalan.jar, crimson.jar). It gives an exception like below.
> "date" is an xml element and so i think it does not require the
> quotes.

The brackets have to balance within an XPath expression, and you're
missing one. It should be:

  <xsl:sort
  select="string-length(substring-before('JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec',
  substring(date,4,3)))"  data-type="number" />
                      ^
               extra bracket here

When you get errors like that, try running with another processor that
might give you a more helpful error message. In this case, I used
Saxon and it said:

  Error at xsl:sort on line 40 .....
    Error in expression .....: expected ")", found "EOF"
               
Cheers,

Jeni

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