Question

I am trying to sort my xml by date but its not working my xml and xsl r like this

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="news/item">
                        <xsl:sort select="date1" order="descending" />                                     

                          <xsl:value-of select="date1"/>                                

                  </xsl:for-each> 
</xsl:template>

MYXML

<news>
 <item>
<date1>January 1, 2010</date1>
 </item>
 <item>
  <date1>November 29, 2009</date1>
</news>


         Its displaying the result but not in sorted way..

Answer 1

xsl-sort does not “know” how to sort dates. It will use default to text sort, though you can specify numeric sort by using the data-type attribute.

There are several approches to solve this – add an attribute or change how you output the date to the source XML, so you have to a representation you can sort numerically.