Sorry, I left out the sort -- 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> 
 


---- [log in to unmask] wrote: 
> 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