hi all,
I need help organizing my xml file (depending on <title tag) alphabetically. here is a sample of the XML file.
<article artclid="1"><title><titltxt>Adwa, Battle of</titltxt></title><def>definition of term</def></article>
<article artclid="8"><title><titltxt>Malagasy peoples</titltxt></title><def>definition of term</def></article>
<article artclid="3"><title><titltxt>Draco</titltxt></title><def>definition of term</def></article>
<article artclid="10" ><title><titltxt>Red River of the North</titltxt></title><def>definition of term</def></article>
<article artclid="19" ><title><titltxt>Harold I</titltxt></title><def>definition of term</def></article>

Assuming the <article> elements are within an <articles> wrapper element, you can do this in XSLT with the rule:

<xsl:template match="articles">
  <xsl:for-each select="article">
    <xsl:sort select="title"/>
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

this works fine till I run into words with referenced entities.
example, <titltxt>&Omacr;kubo Toshimichi</titltxt>.

any suggestions?

thanks


bill