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Hi basically i have this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<catalog>
	<cd>
		<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
		<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
		<country>USA</country>
		<company>Columbia</company>
		<price>10.90</price>
		<year>1985</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>Hide your heart</title>
		<artist>Bonnie Tyler</artist>
		<country>UK</country>
		<company>CBS Records</company>
		<price>9.90</price>
		<year>1988</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>Greatest Hits</title>
		<artist>Dolly Parton</artist>
		<country>USA</country>
		<company>RCA</company>
		<price>9.90</price>
		<year>1982</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>Still got the blues</title>
		<artist>Gary Moore</artist>
		<country>UK</country>
		<company>Virgin records</company>
		<price>10.20</price>
		<year>1990</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>Eros</title>
		<artist>Eros Ramazzotti</artist>
		<country>EU</country>
		<company>BMG</company>
		<price>9.90</price>
		<year>1997</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>One night only</title>
		<artist>Bee Gees</artist>
		<country>UK</country>
		<company>Polydor</company>
		<price>10.90</price>
		<year>1998</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>Sylvias Mother</title>
		<artist>Dr.Hook</artist>
		<country>UK</country>
		<company>CBS</company>
		<price>8.10</price>
		<year>1973</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>Maggie May</title>
		<artist>Rod Stewart</artist>
		<country>UK</country>
		<company>Pickwick</company>
		<price>8.50</price>
		<year>1990</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>Romanza</title>
		<artist>Andrea Bocelli</artist>
		<country>EU</country>
		<company>Polydor</company>
		<price>10.80</price>
		<year>1996</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>When a man loves a woman</title>
		<artist>Percy Sledge</artist>
		<country>USA</country>
		<company>Atlantic</company>
		<price>8.70</price>
		<year>1987</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>Black angel</title>
		<artist>Savage Rose</artist>
		<country>EU</country>
		<company>Mega</company>
		<price>10.90</price>
		<year>1995</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>1999 Grammy Nominees</title>
		<artist>Many</artist>
		<country>USA</country>
		<company>Grammy</company>
		<price>10.20</price>
		<year>1999</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>For the good times</title>
		<artist>Kenny Rogers</artist>
		<country>UK</country>
		<company>Mucik Master</company>
		<price>8.70</price>
		<year>1995</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>Big Willie style</title>
		<artist>Will Smith</artist>
		<country>USA</country>
		<company>Columbia</company>
		<price>9.90</price>
		<year>1997</year>
	</cd>
	<cd>
		<title>Tupelo Honey</title>
		<artist>Van Morrison</artist>
		<country>UK</country>
		<company>Polydor</company>
		<price>8.20</price>
		<year>1971</year>
	</cd>

</catalog>

Accompained with the following XSLT to sort the data:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
    <h2>My CD Collection</h2>
    <table border="1">
      <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
        <th>Title</th>
        <th>Artist</th>
      </tr>
      <xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
      <xsl:sort select="artist"/>
      <tr>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
      </tr>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </table>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Obviously this does the trick and sorts the data by artist in alphabetical order. However I’m wondering if there is a way to give the choice to the user on how they want the data sorted. For example a drop down menu is made available that has options of "album alphabetical order", "ascending order of years", "descending order of years" etc and the document will simply change the display of the data based upon the selection.

Cheers.

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First off, you can't do anything about a drop-down in XSLT directly. So assume you're getting your param, or flags for sorting, from the webspage. This is not a tutorial how to pass param from web to the XSLT. But you can use parameters on the XSLT and with some simple changes in your transformation you can do what you want in one XSLT

In the XSLT below there are 2 parameters. "getSort" is a string value that is the name of any node in the //catalog/cd nodeset. So you can enter a string like 'year' or 'price' and it will sort by that. By default it is set to 'artist'. So if you pass nothing is sorts by artist. "getOrder" is a string value of either 'ascending' or 'descending'. By default the xsl:sort instruction is always ascending. So you only need to pass the value of 'descending' if you want that.

With these 2 you can sort by any value inside //catalog/cd and set the ascending or descending order!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

	<xsl:param name="getSort" select="'artist'"/>
	<xsl:param name="getOrder" select="'ascending'"/>

	<xsl:template match="/">
		<html>
			<body>
				<h2>My CD Collection</h2>
				<table border="1">
					<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
						<th>Title</th>
						<th>Artist</th>
					</tr>
					<xsl:choose>
						<xsl:when test="$getOrder = 'descending'">
							<xsl:apply-templates select="catalog/cd">
								<xsl:sort select="*[local-name() = $getSort]" order="descending"/>
							</xsl:apply-templates>
						</xsl:when>
						<xsl:otherwise>
							<xsl:apply-templates select="catalog/cd">
								<xsl:sort select="*[local-name() = $getSort]"/>
							</xsl:apply-templates>
						</xsl:otherwise>
					</xsl:choose>
				</table>
			</body>
		</html>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="catalog/cd">
		<tr>
			<td>
				<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
			</td>
			<td>
				<xsl:value-of select="artist"/>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

There may be better ways of doing this if the requirements became more complicated, but this was just one possible solution.

Edited by iceandrews because: n/a
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