[xsl] Sort/Ordering Problems

["Benjamin Richard Woline" <valjean@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am having difficulty maintaining the hierarchy in my XML when I try and
reorder/sort the levels.  I am convinced it is issues with both my XPath and my
inexperience with XSLT.  Please advise.


My XML looks like:

<Entry>
<Entry name="A" importance="2">
  <Entry name="B" importance="2">
    <Entry name="C" importance="1"></Entry>
    <Entry name="D" importance="2"></Entry>
  </Entry>
  <Entry name="E" importance="1">
    <Entry name="F" importance="2"></Entry>
    <Entry name="G" importance="1"></Entry>
  </Entry>
</Entry>
<Entry name="H" importance="1">
  <Entry name="I" importance="1">
    <Entry name="J" importance="1"></Entry>
    <Entry name="K" importance="2"></Entry>
  </Entry>
  <Entry name="L" importance="2">
    <Entry name="M" importance="2"></Entry>
    <Entry name="N" importance="1"></Entry>
  </Entry>
</Entry>
</Entry>


I want to sort by importance with each "level" being sorted individually so that
the XML looks like:

<Entry>
<Entry name="H" importance="1">
  <Entry name="I" importance="1">
    <Entry name="J" importance="1"></Entry>
    <Entry name="K" importance="2"></Entry>
  </Entry>
  <Entry name="L" importance="2">
    <Entry name="N" importance="1"></Entry>
    <Entry name="M" importance="2"></Entry>
  </Entry>
</Entry>
<Entry name="A" importance="2">
  <Entry name="E" importance="1">
    <Entry name="G" importance="1"></Entry>
    <Entry name="F" importance="2"></Entry>
  </Entry>
  <Entry name="B" importance="2">
    <Entry name="C" importance="1"></Entry>
    <Entry name="D" importance="2"></Entry>
  </Entry>
</Entry>
</Entry>


When I run this XSLT I get:

<Entry version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:for-each select="//Entry">
	<xsl:sort select="@importance" data-type="number" order="ascending"/>
	<Entry name="{@name}" importance="{@importance}"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</Entry>

<Entry version="1.0">
<Entry name="" importance=""/>
<Entry name="C" importance="1"/>
<Entry name="E" importance="1"/>
<Entry name="G" importance="1"/>
<Entry name="H" importance="1"/>
<Entry name="I" importance="1"/>
<Entry name="J" importance="1"/>
<Entry name="N" importance="1"/>
<Entry name="A" importance="2"/>
<Entry name="B" importance="2"/>
<Entry name="D" importance="2"/>
<Entry name="F" importance="2"/>
<Entry name="K" importance="2"/>
<Entry name="L" importance="2"/>
<Entry name="M" importance="2"/>
</Entry>

I understand the XPath entry is wrong, and I haven't found a differnt path that
gives me the output I want.  That more than likely means I have a problem with
my XSLT initially and no matter what path I insert it will be bad.  Hope someone
can help.

Ben Woline