RE: [xsl] xsl:sort and xsl:count issues

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So far I've managed to perform a simple transformation by 
> applying this 
> XSL:
> 
>                      <xsl:for-each select="//def:record">
                          <xsl:for-each select="def:metadata//dc:creator">
> 
> 
> I've tried to perform the sort by introducing <xsl:sort 
> select="def:metadata//dc:title"> right next to the <xsl:for-each ...> 
> tag but it returned a blank document.

You didn't say which for-each you put it next to.

The sort key (the select attribute of xsl:select) is evaluated relative to
each element processed by the for-each. If you put it on the inner for-each
it will fail because the context node is wrong.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/