Re: Need help with special sorting

I need some help with 'special sorting'.
I have this xml-file (simplified).

<alfabet>
        <letter>a</letter>
        <letter>b</letter>
        <letter>c</letter>
        <letter>d</letter>
</alfabet>

The outcome after sorting should however be this:
a b d c

The letter c has always to be the last item after sorting.
How can I achieve this?

T:\ftemp>type bert.xml
<alfabet>
        <letter>a</letter>
        <letter>b</letter>
        <letter>c</letter>
        <letter>d</letter>
</alfabet>

T:\ftemp>type bert.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
  <!ENTITY given  'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'>
  <!ENTITY needed 'abzcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy'>
]>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:for-each select="/*/letter">
    <xsl:sort select="translate(.,'&given;','&needed;')"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>saxon bert.xml bert.xsl
a
b
d
c

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