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copied!<p>I agree with the other answer posters that you should convert your dates to ISO date format.</p> <p>Having said that, if you insist on using the format as supplied in the sample document, you can use the following xsl:sort instructions ...</p> <pre><code><xsl:sort select="substring(inm:Pub_Date,8)" data-type="number" order="descending"/> <xsl:sort select="string-length( substring-before( 'JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec', substring(inm:Pub_Date,4,3)))" data-type="number" order="descending"/> <xsl:sort select="substring-before(inm:Pub_Date,'-')" data-type="number" order="descending"/> </code></pre> <p>The first sorts on year, the second on month, and then finally day.</p> <p>The style-sheet as a whole is ...</p> <pre><code> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:inm="http://www.inmagic.com/webpublisher/query"> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <ul class="baseList newsList"> <xsl:for-each select="inm:Results/inm:Recordset/inm:Record" > <xsl:sort select="substring(inm:Pub_Date,8)" data-type="number" order="descending"/> <xsl:sort select="string-length( substring-before( 'JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec', substring(inm:Pub_Date,4,3)))" data-type="number" order="descending"/> <xsl:sort select="substring-before(inm:Pub_Date,'-')" data-type="number" order="descending"/> <li> <span class="title"> <a href="#"> <xsl:value-of select="inm:Title" /> </a> </span> <p class="meta"> <span class="dateTime"> <xsl:value-of select="inm:Pub_Date"/> </span> </p> </li> </xsl:for-each> </ul> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> </code></pre> <hr> <h2>Update</h2> <p>Just as a helpful hint, here is a neat template you can use to convert dates from the 30-Jun-2012 format to ISO/XML format. Let me know if you can use XSLT 2.0 . The conversion gets simpler in XSLT 2.0 .</p> <pre><code><xsl:template name="format-date"> <xsl:param name="InDateValue" select="'01-Jan-2000'" /> <xsl:value-of select="concat( substring($InDateValue, 8, 4), '-')"/> <xsl:variable name="month" select="substring($InDateValue, 4, 3)" /> <xsl:value-of select="format-number( translate( $month, 'nFrylgSONDJaebMApupctov', '00240107666') + translate( $month, 'aFpugONDJnebMrAyluSctovc', '12268456'), '00')" /> <xsl:value-of select="concat( '-', substring($InDateValue, 1, 2))"/> </xsl:template> </code></pre> <p>Ok, its quiet obtuse! But I like it.</p>

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