I'd start with experimenting with the <xsl:sort> element in your  
stylesheet.

I've never used it to sort anything more complex than alphabetizing a  
list of <controlaccess> terms but it may have the functionality to do  
part of what you want.  Generating alternative presentations will  
probably require some script outside of XSLT.

Michael Fox

On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:26 PM, "De Catanzaro, Christine D" <[log in to unmask] 
 > wrote:

> Yes, this would be great -- especially in collections that contain  
> ca. 500 ledgers, for example. It would be so nice for the researcher  
> to be able to search the list chronologically, or alphabetically by  
> title, or even by <unitid>!
> Christine
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jennie Anne Levine Knies" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 3:52:05 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: Sorting inventories
>
> We would LOVE to be able to do this. We had an employee a few years  
> ago who started working on it, but we were sidetracked. We even have  
> some specs written. So if anyone else does this, I would love to know!
> Jennie
>
> On Jun 25, 2010, at 3:09 PM, "Michele R Combs" <[log in to unmask]>  
> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of any examples of delivering EAD finding aids in  
>> such a way that the inventory section can be sorted in different  
>> ways (by container, by title, by date) ?
>>
>> Michele
>>
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