> So <xsl:sort select="secondelement" /> would work as well (and be a
> teeny-tiny bit faster).

It might save two microseconds in parsing the XPath expression, but I think
you can take it as read that any respectable XSLT engine will reduce xxx and
./xxx to the same internal representation. Actually I think ./xxx is quite
nice for extra clarity.

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