Re: sorting in <xsl:apply-templates>

	<xsl:template match="//chapter" mode="assemble">

you don't ever want to start a match pattern with // it doesn't do
anything useful (it doesn't do any harm either) it just increases the
default priority for the template (it doesn't change the elements
matched)

You didn't show which template your xsl:sort was in, but it looked OK so
long as it was in a template for your chapters element, so that the
apply-templates default selection of select="node()" picks up a set of
chapter elements which can then be sorted.


David

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