Re: Newbie needs help with sorting a filtered list

I'm an absolute newbie at XSL.

I have an ASP form which is passing two values to my xsl -- let's say for this example "food" and "fruit". I need an alphabetized list of all items that match those criteria. So;
apple
banana
orange
is the result I want.

Here's the XML:
...
This gives me the correct items, but not in alphabetical order:

<xsl:param name="param1"/>
<xsl:param name="param2"/>

<xsl:template match="catalog/entry">
  <xsl:if test="category[@type=$param1] and category[@subcat=$param2]">
    <xsl:for-each select="word">

Returns this list:

orange
apple
banana

This one gives me an alphabetized list, but of all the items, not just the ones that match the params:

<xsl:template match="catalog">
<xsl:if test="entry/category[@type=$param1] and entry/category[@subcat=$param2]">
<xsl:for-each select="entry/word">

Returns this:

apple
banana
endive
kale
orange
spinach

What am I doing wrong,

and why do these two versions, which to my rank amateur brain look like they should be the same, return such different results?

T:\ftemp>type casey.xml
<catalog>
  <entry>
    <word>orange</word>
    <category type="food" subcat="fruit"/>
    <info>
      <serving_size>...</serving_size>
      <preparation>...</preparation>
    </info>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <word>spinach</word>
    <category type="food" subcat="vegetable"/>
    <info>
      <serving_size>...</serving_size>
      <preparation>...</preparation>
    </info>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <word>apple</word>
    <category type="food" subcat="fruit"/>
    <info>
      <serving_size>...</serving_size>
      <preparation>...</preparation>
    </info>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <word>kale</word>
    <category type="food" subcat="vegetable"/>
    <info>
      <serving_size>...</serving_size>
      <preparation>...</preparation>
    </info>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <word>endive</word>
    <category type="food" subcat="vegetable"/>
    <info>
      <serving_size>...</serving_size>
      <preparation>...</preparation>
</info>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <word>banana</word>
    <category type="food" subcat="fruit"/>
    <info>
      <serving_size>...</serving_size>
      <preparation>...</preparation>
    </info>
  </entry>
</catalog>

T:\ftemp>type casey.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:param name="param1"/>
<xsl:param name="param2"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  param1=<xsl:value-of select="$param1"/>
  param2=<xsl:value-of select="$param2"/>
  <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
  <xsl:for-each select="catalog/entry[category/@type=$param1 and
                                      category/@subcat=$param2]">
    <xsl:sort select="word"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="word"/>
    <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>xslt casey.xml casey.xsl con param1=food param2=fruit

  param1=food
  param2=fruit
apple
banana
orange

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