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Using xsl:sort to sort output nodes by substrings

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<!--

The stylesheet will transform this XML document:

<doc>
    <SortPrefixAndTitle>3|Third Course</SortPrefixAndTitle>
    <SortPrefixAndTitle>1|First Course</SortPrefixAndTitle>
    <SortPrefixAndTitle>2|Second Course</SortPrefixAndTitle>
</doc>

into:

<courseTitles>
    <courseTitle>First Course</courseTitle>
    <courseTitle>Second Course</courseTitle>
    <courseTitle>Third Course</courseTitle>
</courseTitles>

-->

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <courseTitles>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="//SortPrefixAndTitle">
                <xsl:sort select="substring-before(.,'|')"> </xsl:sort>
            </xsl:apply-templates>
        </courseTitles>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="SortPrefixAndTitle">
        <xsl:variable name="title" select="substring-after(.,'|')" />
        <courseTitle>
            <xsl:value-of select="$title" />
        </courseTitle>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

URL: xsl-sort-substrings

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