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Sort the nodes.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template name="test">
<xsl:for-each select="*">
<xsl:sort select="/@type"/>
<xsl:sort select="/@name"/>
...
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:sort select="/@type"/>
<xsl:sort select="/@name"/>
...
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Sorting can be performed on xsl:for-each and xsl:apply-template elements.
The primary sort-key is defined by the first xsl:sort element, subsequent xsl:sort elements define secondary and other.
A data-type attribute can be used to specify the type (number/text) sorting algorithm.
An order attribute can be used to specifies whether the nodes should be sorted in 'ascending' or 'descending' order.
If the data-type defined is text, a case-order attribute can be used to specify that upper-case characters should be sorted before lower-case or the other way around.
The test attribute value always expects a string result, the value is converted to a string as if by a call to the XPath string function.