Re: sorting issue

    <xsl:preserve-space elements="text"/>

that line isn't doing anything (preserve space is the default)

               <xsl:apply-templates 
select="document(doc/@filename)/client">

This is just selecting one node from each document
which is why each document is sorted as a whole, you want t(I think) to
select all the subclients from all documents so that is

               <xsl:apply-templates 
select="document(doc/@filename)/client/subclient">

and then sort them by title
                    <xsl:sort select="name/lname" />

(some of your subclients have a title not an name currently they'll all
sort together as "" you may want to have title|name/lname or something
I don't konw...

David

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