XSLT is a language used to transform XML documents into XHTML documents or other XML documents.

XSLT <xsl:sort> element syntax

The

<xsl:sort> element is used to sort the output results.

XSLT <xsl:sort> element example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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>