Sort XML nodes in alphabetical order using XSL

Question

I am trying to figure out how to sort the XML list of employees alphabetically by lastname using XSL. Right now it just displays the XML information in the same order as it

Answer 1

At a glance,

    <xsl:sort select="Employee/Lastname" data-type="text" order="ascending"/>
    <xsl:sort select="Employee/Firstname" data-type="text" order="ascending"/>

should be

    <xsl:sort select="Lastname" data-type="text" order="ascending"/>
    <xsl:sort select="Firstname" data-type="text" order="ascending"/>

for-each sets the context node for the select, so the expression is evaluated against the Employee nodes.

Also, text and ascending are defaults, so you could just write

    <xsl:sort select="Lastname"/>
    <xsl:sort select="Firstname"/>