XSLT Custom Sort

Question

Is it possible in XSLT to sort in alphabetical order, with 5 items as \"preferred\".

i.e. given

Answer 1

Have you seen xsl:sort element, you can create two or more sorting criteria by combining xsl:apply-templates and xsl:sort

Indeeed, here is a sample where some countries comes first, in a predefined order, then all the others. Note that these are elements, not attributes as above.

Sample result:

Country

Scotland   
Scotland 
Scotland 
India 
Afghanistan 
Afghanistan 
Afghanistan 
Afghanistan 
Afghanistan 
Afghanistan 
Albania 
Albania 
Albania 
Algeria