Re: Chewy key problem

> So b elements can have description children (desc), and so can their bChild
> children.

do any descendents of b have text content other than the desc elements?
in your example it is the case that all the text is in desc but may be
that is just because you cut it down for posting.
As posted you could just sort on the string value of b.
<xsl:key name="x" match="b" use="."/>
together with zapping some white space
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

Otherwise Id use node-set as others have posted.

David

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