Oops, I left out the sort.  It should be:

<xsl:for-each select="//TitleWork ">
   <xsl:sort select="roles[1]/Name-Role[1]/party[1]/@xl:title" data-type="text" order="ascending"/>
   <c01 level="file">
      <did>
         <unittitle><xsl:value-of select="roles[1]/Name-Role[1]/party[1]/@xl:title"/></unittitle>
         ...[etc. whatever]
      </did>
   </c01>
</xsl:for-each>


-----Original Message-----
From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michele Rothenberger
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:43 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: XSLT: Sort and copy all source records into resulting document

No, you shouldn't need to process them twice.  In the sample I sent, I just had code to output the title so I could see that it worked, but you could just as easily replace that with

<xsl:for-each select="//TitleWork ">
   <c01 level="file">
      <did>
         <unittitle><xsl:value-of select="roles[1]/Name-Role[1]/party[1]/@xl:title"/></unittitle>
         ...[etc. whatever]
      </did>
   </c01>
</xsl:for-each>

and it should output them in the order you want.

Michele

---- Marsha Maguire <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> Hi, Michele and anyone else who might be interested,
> 
> Michele, re. my XSLT emails of last week and your kind replies: I want 
> to convert all the source TitleWork records in my source file to EAD 
> <c01> entries. The finding aid will describe a collection that 
> consists of sound recordings of interviews. I want those <c01> 
> descriptions presented in order by the surname of the main person (or 
> name of the musical group) interviewed, and that info is in (here's the full path):
> 
> /mavis/TitleWork/roles/Name-Role[1]/party[1]/@xs:title     [I hadn't
> thought to filter both Name-Role and party to the first instance of 
> each - thank you!]
> 
> If I sort the TitleWork "records" in the same stylesheet that converts 
> them to EAD <c01> descriptions, will I need to process the <TitleWork> 
> elements a second time? E.g.,
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="//TitleWork">
>             <c01 level="file">
>                 <did> ...
> 
> I thought that wasn't possible unless the "mode" attribute was used 
> with either xsl:template or xsl:apply-templates. I'm leery of 
> xsl:apply-templates because it sets off the default templates, and 
> really, I don't want most of the elements in each source TitleWork 
> record in the resulting EAD. The source TitleWork records as exported 
> from our collections management system is over 500 lines long; I'm 
> just using a few elements and attributes from the source in the 
> resulting <c01> entries. Of course, the stylesheet I wrote to try to 
> sort *and* copy over the full exported source document also processes 
> some elements twice, right? Which is probably why it isn't working, either -- ?
> 
> Thanks again, so much.
> 
> Marsha Maguire