> But  . there selects the concatenation of the character data of the
> entire table element's descendants
> is that what you what to sort on?

Nope, I meant <xsl:sort select="@name" /> I believe, it's the table
occurrences I wanted sorted.

>> the for-each's current value, I am not clear on how to leverage current()
to facilliatte that?
>
>Just use current() not . in the expression you had.

Ugh, typo in test case! Yeah it's all working now, thanks!

>(It would probably be more efficient yo use xsl:key but get it working
>before optimising)

Interesting, I will look into that.

Thanks David,
jlc