"Noel" <nospam@n...> wrote in message
news:%23iFQbU3vEHA.3580@T......
> Here's the actual code for XSL:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0"><xsl:output method="xml"/>
>
> <xsl:param name="sortorder" select="'descending'"/>
> <xsl:param name="sortfield" select="'xxx'"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>  <root>
>  <xsl:for-each select="data" >
>  <xsl:sort select="@*[name()=$sortfield]" order="{$sortorder}" />
>   <data>
>    <xsl:for-each select="@*" >
>     <xsl:attribute name='{name()}'> <xsl:value-of
> select="."/></xsl:attribute>
>    </xsl:for-each>
>   </data>
>  </xsl:for-each>
>  </root>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="data">
>  <data>
>   <xsl:apply-templates/>
>  </data>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
In your first template (match="/") data does not lie under /, it lies under
root. You need use ./*/root or add the
xmlns:sql='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-sql' declaration to your stylesheet
and use sql:root/data.

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Joe (MVP - xml)