Re: How to sort sibling elements based on attribute of

<Root>
    <Stuff>stuff</Stuff>
    <Annotation>
        <Comment Priority="1">my first comment</Comment>
    </Annotation>
    <Annotation>
        <Comment Priority="3">my third comment</Comment>
    </Annotation>
    <Annotation>
        <Comment Priority="2">my second comment</Comment>
    </Annotation>
    <Bother>bother</Bother>
</Root>

Using XSL 1.0 / MSXML6.0, I want to produce the Annotation elements
sorted by @Priority, e.g.

stuff
my first comment
my second comment
my third comment
bother

Constraints:

1. Preceding and following elements e.g. <Stuff> and <Bother>, and
possibly other elements, are optional in the source XML, but must be
output in sequence wrt comments

<xsl:template match select="/*">
  <xsl:apply-templates
   select="Annotation[1]/preceding-sibling::*"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="Annotation">
    <xsl:sort select="*/@Priority"/>
  </xsl:apply-templates>
  <xsl:apply-templates
   select="Annotation[last()]/following-sibling::*"/>
</xsl:template>

Cheers,
Wendell

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