In the snippet you posted earlier there was only one 
RetrieveTransactionHistory2RSResponse

so
<xsl:apply-templates select="RetrieveTransactionHistory2RSResponse">
	<xsl:sort (anything)

is sorting a list of length 1, so nor sort key is going to change
anything.


If you want to sort the Item elements you need to select those and then
sort using the path I suggested using substring(Date....

David

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