Enforcing element order

Hi:

I have an xml input file as shown below:

<mfunc>
<text><para> </para></ text>

<image><title> </title>< /image>
<table></table>
<text><para> </para></ text>
<text><para> </para></ text>
<image><title> </title>< /image>

<l1>
.....
</l1>

<image><title> </title>< /image>
<table></table>
<text><para> </para></ text>

</mfunc>

As you can see elements image, table and text can
appear before and
after <l1>. Now in the PDF, I want all image, text and
table elements
to appear before l1 and the ones after to appear after
l1.

Here is my XSLFO piece for tjis part:

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="*[self: :image[following -sibling:
:table] or
self::image[ following- sibling:: text] or
self::image] ">
<xsl:apply-template s select="*[not( self::image) and
not(self::table[ preceding: :image]) and
not(self::text[ preceding: :image])] "/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-template s/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

The issue I am facing here is:

1) becos of "<xsl:apply- templates select="*[not(
self::image) ...."
Any image that appears before <l1> is forced to the
end after l1.

2) The same holds true for text and table elements.

Can anyone suggest a different apprach to this
problem?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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