RE: [xsl] <xsl:sort>

["Aron Bock" <aronbock@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could use something a prior respondent posted:

> Incidentally this could be rewritten
>
> <xsl:template match="document">
>   ...
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="child::node()[position() > 2]"/>
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="child::product">
>     <xsl:sort.../>
>   </xsl:apply-templates>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Michael Kay

Enhancing it with:

<xsl:template match="document/*[not(product)]">
/template

<xsl:template match="product[position()=1]">
/template

<xsl:template match="product[position() > 1]">
/template


etc.

The idea is that one or more "main" templates select nodes ... which are 
processed by other specifically-matching templates.

Some of these secondary templates, say, the non-product-matching ones which 
need to handle varying preamble, could be put into a separate stylesheet, 
and imported into this one via <xsl:import/>.

Archives of this ng also show how to apply templates based on a 
dynamically-determined criterion.

That said, in my limited experience the advisability of using a single 
stylesheet to transform markedly different content is suspect.

Regards,

--A

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